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Grig on Popular Culture

16 March 2024

Lucy Grig has put out Popular Culture and the End of Antiquity in Southern Gaul, c. 400–550, Cambridge: CUP. Go to catalogue ToC 1 Introduction:… Read more

Starostin on Late Antique Chronology

12 March 2024

Dmitry Starostin writes on ‘Astronomical Cycles and Late Antique Chronology’ in arXiv:2403.03682 [physics.hist-ph], 6 March 2024, 24 pp. Access via arXiv Heightened eschatological sensitivity is… Read more

Novel At the Ruin of the World

7 March 2024

Gavin Kelly signals a work of historical fiction: At the Ruin of the World, by John Henry Clay (London, 2015), heavily based on Sidonius, covering… Read more

Jeweled Materiality of Objects and Texts

6 March 2024

Call for Papers. Deadline 30 April 2024 The Jeweled Materiality of Late Antique/Early Medieval Objects and Texts From Cloisonné to Stained Glass to Experimental Poetry… Read more

Reception of Apuleius in Fifth-Century Gaul

5 March 2024

The University of Bari is hiring a post-doctoral researcher for the project ‘Tradition and reception of Apuleius’ works in fifth-century Gaul’, with particular attention to… Read more

Ker on Time in Letter 2.9

3 March 2024

James Ker, The Ordered Day: Quotidian Time and Forms of Life in Ancient Rome, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2023. To the catalogue. On pp. 287-90:… Read more

Hindermann on Letter and Epigram (Ep. 2.8)

27 February 2024

Judith Hindermann, ‘Grabepigramm und Trauerbrief: Plinius der Jüngere, Martial, Ausonius, Hieronymus und Sidonius Apollinaris’, in: T. Fögen and N. Mindt (eds), Brief und Epigramm. Bezüge… Read more

Neger on Letter and Epigram (Ep. 4.11, 8.11)

23 February 2024

Margot Neger, ‘Brief und Epigramm in den Nachrufen auf Literaten bei Sidonius Apollinaris (Epist. 4,11 und 8,11)’, in: Thorsten Fögen and Nina Mindt (eds), Brief… Read more

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