Ostmitteleuropa interdisziplinär reflects the aims and objectives of the Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council. East Central Europe is regarded an open region, comprising the north-eastern and south-eastern territories in Europe as well. It is the aim of the series to offer a platform for interdisciplinary, diachronically profound and trans-national research that is able to productively use focus and flexibility of the concept of East Central Europe and to generate new impulses in research