The essays in the final volume of the Göttingen conference series on cultural dissemination (14001520) investigate to which extent and why certain innovations in theology, philosophy, medicine, jurisprudence, literature, music, painting, economics, cartography, geographical experience, and historical knowledge were either able to leave their sphere of origin or came up against the insurmountable borders of their impact.

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Berndt Hamm, Univ. Erlangen Nuremberg; Frank Rexroth, Univ. Göttingen; Christine Wulf, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.