Propylaeum

Cultural misunderstandings are on the one hand a basic condition of intercultural communication, but on the other hand they can also be understood as a result of interculturality. There are both unreflected and provoked or politically exploited misunderstandings, as well as misunderstandings of research, which sometimes prematurely confirms a misunderstanding where logic and context are not immediately apparent. Such misunderstandings determined the political-cultural relationship between Byzantium, the Latin West and the Slavic world, which are examined in the newly published volume from the series "Byzantium between Orient and Occident".