The final report of the EUFams II project funded by the European Commission is intended to contribute to the uniform and consistent application of European family and succession law. The aim of the project was to assess the functionality and effectiveness of European family and inheritance law, to identify possible problems and to propose solutions.

This year, the 53rd Deutscher Historikertag (German Historians' Conference) will take place digitally via a conference platform. heiUP is represented in the digital library with twelve publications.

The second issue of Cursor_, the journal for explorative theology, is about the question of what "Christian identity" is and how early Christianity succeeded in forming Christian identity in ethnically mixed groups? It is about individual and collective identities and whether identity formation must always lead to exclusion or appropriation of the other? A topic with numerous facets and with a lot of conflict potential.

What does humanism mean, who belongs to the humanists? This was clarified by contemporaries, not least through diatribes. The authors of the 17th volume of the “Beihefte” (supplements) to the journal “Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung" examine in an interdisciplinary synopsis these mutual personal disparagements as a means of asserting one's own positions.

In this volume of the “Heidelberger Jahrbücher Online” on the topic of "Intelligence" edited by Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla, Joachim Funke and Michael Wink, scientists from various disciplines - from mathematics, biology, medicine, and psychology to culture, economics, and politics - address a variety of current issues and search for interdisciplinary solutions.

Au Moyen Âge, les abbayes bénédictines justifiaient leur existence par leur isolement du monde. Mais pour survivre, les abbayes devaient échanger des biens ou des services avec leur environnement politique et économique en dehors des murs du monastère. Jérôme Verdoot examine ce paradoxe de la vie monastique à travers l'exemple des moines qui ont vécu à l'abbaye Saint-Pierre de Lobbes (Hainaut, Belgique) du VIIe à la fin du XIVe siècle.