JvW

JvW

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 This may be your chance to buy: – Gavin Kelly & Joop van Waarden (eds), The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius…

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…