This project focuses on the long term tangible impact of the contacts with Byzantium on the cultural history of Central Europe. It aims to create a census of all objects of Byzantine origin or with a Byzantine theme in the Danube regions and the northern Alps (with a focus on Austria), both movable (such as manuscripts) and immovable (such as wall paintings). It investigates the ways of transmission and modes of (re)interpretation or even modification within the changing contexts of their aesthetic, religious, political or economic appreciation from the medieval to the modern period. A further focus lies on the travel of literary motifs between the medieval West and Byzantium, based on the long lasting research of Carolina Cupane.