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Doctorate Matthijs Zoeter

13 September 2024

On Monday 9 September, Matthijs Zoeter received his Doctorate in History in Ghent with a thesis titled ‘Beyond the Letter: (Self-)Presentation of Basil of Caesarea… Read more

Reviews of Oppedisano and Giannotti

11 September 2024

In the latest issue of Athenaeum (112/1, June 2024), there are reviews of F. Oppedisano (ed.), Procopio Antemio, imperatore di Roma, Bari 2020 (by A.… Read more

Why Empires Fall

3 September 2024

Peter Heather and John Rapley, Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023. Listed here.… Read more

Conference The Making of the Author

28 August 2024

Coming soon, the international conference ‘The Making of the Author: Self-Fashioning in Letter Collections Across the Mediterranean (4th-14th c.)’. Giulia Marolla will give a paper… Read more

Bonnan-Garçon on Carm. 21

24 August 2024

Camille Bonnan-Garçon, ‘Munus flatteur, présent ou sportule? Le billet accompagnant un cadeau dans l’Antiquité tardive’, in: Thomas Deswarte, Klaus Herbers and Nathanaël Nimmegeers (eds), Epistola… Read more

Hindermann Now In Paperback

14 August 2024

Judith Hindermann’s commentary on Letters Book 2 is now also available in paperback, for only £29.99. Order here Read more

Egetenmeyr’s ‘Konstruktion der Anderen’ Reviewed

12 August 2024

Reviews have appeared of Veronika Egetenmeyr, Die Konstruktion der ‘Anderen’. Barbarenbilder in den Briefen des Sidonius Apollinaris: – Hendrik Hess in Plekos 26 (2024) 301–306… Read more

Arnold on Riverscapes

9 August 2024

Ellen Arnold wrote Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300-1100, Cambridge: CUP, 2024. Check it in the catalogue. Late antique Gaul is… Read more

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