The 21st issue of the research magazine RUPERTO CAROLA is about the beginning of life to its end, it is about reproductive and palliative medicine, disappearing glaciers, the end of languages, chronic pain, initials in medieval manuscripts or the life and death of galaxies and much more.

On old age and ageing: Case Studies from Gerontological and Humanistic Perspectives offers new insights into the topic of ageing research.

Vecchiaia e invecchiamento: Case Studies from Gerontological and Humanistic Perspectives offre nuovi spunti di riflessione sul tema della ricerca sull'invecchiamento.

Spatial, cultural and legal - the authors of the ninth volume of the Online-Schriften des DHI Rom. Neue Reihe deal with selected cases of the transgression of borders in the Middle Ages.

Gli autori del nono volume della serie Pubblicazioni online del DHI Roma. Nuova serie affrontano casi selezionati di trasgressione dei confini spaziali, culturali e legali nel Medioevo.

Friedrich Carl Kaiser's dissertation, submitted in 1962, is the only monograph to deal systematically with the life and work of the court musician Carl Stamitz (1745-1801). Until now, it was only available in the form of deposit copies, which were distributed among a few libraries and differed from one another. The present edition now offers a reliable reading edition.

From Plato to contact linguistics, Steve Pagel tells the story of the study of language contact and shows how critical historiographical studies can help advance current debates.

What are the prerequisites of cosmological thinking? How do cosmologies inscribe themselves in the intellectual, theoretical, political, ethical and practical contexts of their time? What perspectives do they open up for the future? The authors answer these questions in several case studies ranging from prehistory to present-day Earth system science.