Keywordsthe Mediterranean; transcultural experiences; late medieval German prose novels; Königin Sibille; Melusine; Pontus und Sidonia; Fortunatus; Ottomans; crusades; travel experience; Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken; Thüring von Ringoltingen; Eleonore of Austria; transculturalism; meaning of life; meaning in life; humanism; description and evaluation; moral objectivism; Nietzsche; transcultural space; transculturalism; fiction and transculture; scriptorics and transculture; experimental writing; feminism and transculture; Afropolitanism; La littérature-monde; cosmopolitanism; transnational literature; African literature; Maghrebi; Francophone literature; transculturality; transcultural novels; world literature; Italian literature; Libya; colonialism; mobility; identity; unbelonging; translation; Johann Heinrich Campe; Robinson Crusoe; Moral Foundations Theory; autobiography; memoirs; language memoirs; foreigner language teaching/learning; Alexander von Humboldt; cultural memory; transcultural memory; Thomas Jefferson; Founding Fathers; intercultural; transcultural; transcultural literary interpretation; Johann Martin Chladenius; Johann Gottfried Herder; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Nathan der Weise; Johann Wolfgang Goethe; Karl-Josef Kuschel; n/a; political philosophy; transculturalism; empathy; Foucault; Kant; Herder; Mendelssohn
