Introduction / George MacLean -- The status of the Oriental traveller in Renaissance Venice / Deborah Howard -- St George between East and West / Jerry Brotton -- Mummy is become merchandise / Philip Schwyzer -- A double perspective and a lost rivalry / Barnaby Rogerson -- The French Renaissance in search of the Ottoman empire / Philip Mansel -- Petrarch and 'that mad dog Averroes' / Robert Irwin -- Arab views of Europeans, 1578-1727 / Nabil Matar -- The treacherous cleverness of hindsight / Caroline Finkel.