Hellenic studies at Princeton : thirtieth anniversary / Dimitri Gondicas -- The perils of periodization / Marina S. Brownlee -- Renaissance encounters : preface / Peter Brown -- George Gemistos Plethon and the West : Greek emigres, Latin scholasticism, and Renaissance humanism / John Monfasani -- Renaissance encounters : Byzantium meets the West at the Council of Ferrara-Florence 1438-9 / Judith Herrin and Stuart M. McManus -- Byzantine and Italian political thought concerning the rise of cities before the Renaissance / Teresa Shawcross -- The meeting of East and West in medieval monasticism in Sicily and south Italy / Giles Constable -- Betwixt or beyond? : the Salento in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Linda Safran -- Between East and West : the symbolism of space in the art of Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) / Maria Evangelatou -- Linguistic encounters : the presence of spoken Greek in sixteenth-century Venice / Marc D. Lauxtermann -- Boccaccio and the Greek world of his time : a missing link in the "true story of the novel"? / Roderick Beaton -- Byzantine romances : eastern or western? / Elizabeth Jeffreys -- The Mediterranean melting pot : monetary crosscurrents of the twelfth through fifteenth centuries / Alan M. Stahl -- Encounters in the realm of dress : attitudes towards western styles in the Greek East / Maria G. Parani