This book focuses on the network of the Genoese colonies in the Black Sea area and their diverse multi-ethnic societies. It raises the problems of continuity of

Rafał Quirini-Popławski offers here the first panorama of the artistic phenomena of the Genoese outposts scattered around the Black Sea, an area whose cultura

The history of the Black Sea as a source of Mediterranean slaves stretches from ancient Greek colonies to human trafficking networks in the present day. At its

"This collection of essays is most welcome. The main articles of Marian Małowist are collected together (and in many cases translated into English) for the fir

The history of the Black Sea may be considered as alternating between an “inner lake,” when a single empire establishes control over the sea and its surroun