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Paradziński on Amicitia with Barbarians
Aleksander Paradziński writes on ‘Romano-Barbarian Amicitia: Shaping the Discourse and Sustaining Political and Social Networks’ in Palamedes 15 (2025) 53–75. Read in Knowledge Commons Abstract Links of amicitia were an essential element of the Roman elite’s inner relations and a mark of belonging to it. These political alliances were performed and sustained by the exchange…
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Lepoutre on Institution Transformed
In a conference poster, Paulo Lepoutre frames ‘Episcopal Authority and the Transformation of Romanitas in Fifth-Century Gaul: Evidence from Sidonius Apollinaris’ Letters’ as a functional substitution (CURF Spring Research Symposium, University of Pennsylvania, April 13, 2026). Read at UPenn Repository Abstract This poster examines the transformation of episcopal authority in fifth-century Gaul through the correspondence…
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Mastandrea on Cultural Transition
Paolo Mastandrea, ‘Dal tramonto all’alba di una civiltà letteraria’, in: Edoardo Ferrarini, Donatella Manzoli, Paolo Mastandrea and Martina Venuti (eds), Venanzio Fortunato tra il Piave e la Loira: Atti del terzo Convegno internazionale di studi, Lexis Supplements 21, Venice: Edizioni Ca’Foscari, 2026, 3-11. Abstract Some thoughts on the cultural transition from Late Antiquity to the…
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Bredikhin From Barbarian to Citizen
Vladimir V. Bredikhin wrote an article ‘From Barbarian to Citizen: The Road to Roman Identity in the Late Antique Narrative Tradition’, published in Scientific Notes of V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. Historical Science, 12 (78) no 1 (2026) 3-17. Read it in the EU Open Research Repository Zenodo. Abstract This article examines the transformation of…
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Recupero Porcino on Sidoniana
Eleonora Recupero Porcino contributes an article titled ‘Verso un’edizione digitale delle opere di Sidonio Apollinare: problemi metodologici e prospettive del portale Sidoniana‘ to a special issue of Umanistica Digitale 23 (2026) on pp. 263-75. This special is dedicated to ‘Digital Latin. Computational Infrastructures for Research on Latin Language and Literature’. It covers, among other projects,…
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Cyprus Conference on Letters by Rulers
Chiara Di Serio and Margot Neger (neger.margot AT ucy.ac.cy) have organised an international conference on ‘Letters and Authority: The Epistolary Communication of Rulers and Religious Leaders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages’. Date: 29-30 May 2026. Venue: University of Cyprus, Dept. of Classics and Philosophy. Étienne Wolff will be speaking on ‘A Bishop Writes to…
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Leach Reviews the Selected Letters
Colin Leach wrote the first review of Joop van Waarden’s Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters on the Classics for All website. ‘The Introduction is of exemplary quality.’ ‘In reading the Letters, I found that there was not even a single instance where my perplexity was not put to rest by van Waarden.’ ‘Van Waarden has written…
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Sirks on Colonate
Boudewijn Sirks, in his recent monograph The Colonate in the Roman Empire, Cambridge: CUP, 2024, on pp. 264-67, devotes a section to ‘The Council of Orange of 441, Sidonius Apollinaris ер. 5.19, and Remigius of Reims’.
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