The Danube has been a border and a bridge for migrants and goods since antiquity. Between the 17th and the 19th centuries, commercial networks were formed between the Ottoman Empire and Central and Eastern Europe creating diaspora communities. This gradually led to economic and cultural transfers connecting the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the Continental world of commerce. The contributors to the present volume offer different perspectives on commerce and entrepreneurship based on the interregional treaties of global significance, on cultural and ecclesiastical relations, population policy and demographical aspects. Questions of identity, family, and memory are in the centre of several chapters as they interact with the topographic and socio-anthropological territoriality of all the regions involved. Contributors are: Constantin Ardeleanu, Iannis Carras, Lidia Cotovanu, Lyubomir Georgiev, Olga Katsiardi-Hering, Dimitrios Kontogeorgis, Nenad Makuljevic, Ikaros Mantouvalos, Anna Ransmayr, Vaso Seirinidou, Maria A. Stassinopoulou.

Die Autorin untersucht das Formenspektrum griechischer visueller Poesie in ihrer sprachlichen und kulturgeschichtlichen Spannbreite: Vom antiken Technopagnion, den Kuben und Trigona, uber die byzantinischen "gewebten Verse" oder die neuzeitlichen figurierten Lobgedichte bis hin zur Vielfalt experimenteller Formen in der Moderne und der Code Poetry unserer Zeit. Die literaturhistorische Darstellung berucksichtigt neben der rein textuellen Seite der entsprechenden Artefakte auch deren medialen und performativen Charakter und setzt sie in Bezug zu den internationalen Stroemungen.