Contents: Introduction, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann; Jacob Burckhardt and the 'Renaissance' north of the Alps, Bruce Boucher; Styles and manners: reflections on the longue dur in the history of architecture, Jean Guillaume; Unity and discontinuity in the architecture of the Low Countries, 1530-1700, Konrad A. Ottenheym; Alchemy of wind and water: Amsterdam, 1200-1700, Elisabeth de Bi e; At the center on the frontier: the Jesuit Tarahumara missions of New Spain, Clara Bargellini; Placing Chinese painting history: the cultural production of the geohistory of painting practice in China, Jennifer Purtle; Between place and time: a critical geography of 'new' Central Europe, Piotr Piotrowski; 'Independent of time and place': on the rise and decline of a modernist ideal, Dario Gamboni; Arbitrariness and authority: how art makes cultures, David Summers; Index.