This volume unites a wide range of papers given at the international conference Italy and
Europe's Eastern Border. 1204-1669 in Rome in November 2010. Its content reflects the manifold
research topics of a European scholarly community united in the joint endeavor to shape new
aspects and to promote innovative fields of Mediterranean Studies. Therefore various
approaches to the overall topic can be found in this volume be it from the viewpoint of war
and religion frontier and border studies the union of churches diplomacy theology economic
history humanism diplomatics historiography prosopography or genealogy. This is the first
volume of the series Eastern and Central European Studies and at the same time an incentive for
volumes to follow which will guide the reader on his journey through space and time to
hitherto unknown shores of Eastern European and Mediterranean Studies.
