The research magazine Ruperto Carola presents current research topics at Heidelberg University. Under the title „Verbinden & Spalten“, the current issue deals, among other things, with the effects of the Corona pandemic on our society, molecular death complexes and progress in Alzheimer's research.

Princely summer residences are regarded as places of longing where rulers sought to realise their dream of an earthly paradise and escape the constraints of court ceremonial. The authors of the fifth volume of Schriften zur Südwestdeutschen Hofmusik examine the music that was made in summer residences in German-speaking countries as well as in Italy, Spain, England, Sweden and Russia.

Avec l'indépendance de l'Algérie en 1962, environ 85 000 musulmans qui avaient soutenu l'armée française pendant la guerre ont quitté le pays pour la France. Anna Laiß analyse la difficile recherche par les "harkis" et leurs descendants de leur place dans la République française.

From now on, the journal „Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung“ at heiUP: in the familiar print version and now also for free download. The Association of Medievalists takes the digital transformation of its journal as an opportunity to ask about the state of its discipline in 2021 and to develop future perspectives in the current issue.

Insights into Social Life in the Late Antique Nile Valley: Volume 2 of Studien und Texte aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung includes the edition of 42 previously unpublished Egyptian papyrus documents from the 5th to 8th centuries AD with translation and a historical-linguistic commentary.

Johann Stamitz was a figurehead of Mannheim court music: the new volume of Schriften zur Südwestdeutschen Hofmusik is based on the symposium "Die Familie Stamitz und die europäische Musikermigration im 18. Jahrhundert" (The Stamitz Family and European Musicians' Migration in the 18th Century), to which not only experienced experts but also young scholars were explicitly invited to present their research results.