From the Middle Ages to the present intercultural exchange has shaped knowledge and
scholarship in Central Europe. While nationalism practical and methodological as well as
memory practices created a clear-cut vision of German-Polish scholarly contacts this volume
proposes interconnectedness entanglement and circulation as new modes of inquiry. Based on
examples ranging from architectural knowledge to philosophy and from archaeology to physical
chemistry contributions to this volume seek for alternative ways to tell the stories of
scholarly relations in the space shaped not only by multilinguality but also by power
inequalities imperialism and nationalisms. In particular they counter the widespread
center-periphery dependence by concentrating on encounters and sites in between as privileged
places of inquiry. Last but not least they put to the test the prevailing categories of
historical research of the space in question highlighting the variety of identifications and
ways they impacted scholarly communication.
