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Sidonius ebooks at only £9.99
For this week only (from 20 July 2026), Edinburgh University Press dropped the prices of all its ebooks to £9.99/€14.95. This may be your chance to buy: – Gavin Kelly & Joop van Waarden (eds), The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris – Judith Hindermann, Sidonius Apollinaris’ Letters, Book 2 – Giulia Marolla, Sidonius: Letters Book…
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Bonze on Finances in Ep. 4.24
Ian Bonze speaks on ‘A Christianisation of Finances? A Case Study of Sid. Apoll. 4.24’ at the Celtic Conference in Classics, panel 22 Late Antique Microhistories. See the conference programme at p. 47.
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Wood on Sidonius’ Epitaph
At the IMC 2026, on 6 July, Ian Wood gave a paper entitled ‘The Epitaph of Sidonius: Implications for the History of 5th-Century Gaul’.
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Transcription Lütjohann Revised
Joop van Waarden has revised his transcription of the Epistulae and Carmina in Lütjohann’s edition. It is freely available at the Propylaeum Portal on the Sidonius Apollinaris: Lütjohann’s Text page. Corrections are based on a comparison, powered by Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8, of version 2 of the transcription (dated 18 September 2007) with the TEI-XML…
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Van Waarden Reviews Carmina minora
Joop van Waarden reviews Santelia and Condorelli, Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina minora, Naples, 2023, in Athenaeum 114, 1 (2026) 283-8.
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Bruzzone Reviews Lo specchio del modello
Antonella Bruzzone reviews Di Stefano and Onorato (eds), Lo specchio del modello. Orizonti intertestuali e Fortleben di Sidonio Apollinare, Naples, 2020, in Athenaeum 114 (2026) 227-31.
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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 an 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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