Central Europe’s Limits in the North and the South
Central Europe’s Limits in the North and the South

Summary/Abstract: For the past two decades, I have made modern Central Europe my main subject of inquiry and my interdisciplinary field of research. Both afford a versatile framework within which I have probed into the mechanisms, dynamics, and history of language politics. Now, the time has come for me to move on to other subjects of research. But it would be inappropriate if I took leave of Central Europe without a suitable valediction, which I hope this essay offers. The entangled history of Central Europe and its often mutually contradictory national historiographies (or rather national master narratives) call into question the region itself. Hence, it is of methodological import to reflect on the history of the concept of Central Europe and its (ab)uses. Obviously, a thorough treatment would require at least a small monograph. Thus, I have decided to focus on an aspect that authors dealing with Central Europe tend to neglect, namely, the region’s confines in the north and south.

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