Published online in Mnemosyne: Giulia Marolla, ‘The Names of Sidonius’ Addressees and the Manuscript Tradition of the Letters’.
Author: JvW
Williard on the Scale of Communication
Hope Williard (Utrecht University) wrote ‘Letter Carriers and the Scale of Communication in the Epistolae of Sidonius Apollinaris’ for Kristina Sessa and Kevin Uhalde (eds), Scale and the Study of Late Antiquity, Munera 53, Bari: Edipuglia, 2023, 153-67.
Catalogue volume here
Preprint version article on Academia here
Santelia Translates Carmina minora
Another milestone in Sidonius scholarship has been reached: the first complete Italian translation of the Carmina minora by Stefania Santelia, with her text and explanatory notes. Silvia Condorelli wrote the introduction. Full title: Sidonio Apollinare. Carmina minora. Testo, traduzione e note a cura di Stefania Santelia. Saggio introduttivo di Silvia Condorelli, Studi latini n.s. 97, Naples: Paolo Loffredo, 2023.
Available here.
Furbetta on the Correspondence’s Social Function
Luciana Furbetta, ‘L’écriture “en réseau”. Réflexions sur la fonction “socio-stylistique” de la correspondance de Sidoine Apollinaire’, Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Moyen Âge 135 (2023) 171-89.
Here online
Omissi on Italy in Latin Panegyric
Jeroen Wijnendaele has put out the edited volume Late Roman Italy: Imperium to Regnum with Edinburgh’s EUP. Of particular interest to students of Sidonius is Adrastos Omissi’s chapter on Late Roman Italy in Latin Panegyric (pp. 454-74).
Meurer and Egetenmeyr: Gallia docta?
Tabea Meurer and Veronika Egetenmeyr have published a selection of the papers given at the Gallia docta? conference of March 2021 (Greifswald, online): Gallia docta? Education and In-/Exclusion in Late Antique Gaul.
Contributions specifically concerning Sidonius include articles by Hendrik Hess, Judith Hindermann, Alison John, Gernot Michael Müller and Willum Westenholz. Joop van Waarden rounds off his ‘you’ and ‘I’ cycle.
Further details and an open access PDF here
Manuscript IRHT 347 Now Online
Manuscript Paris IRHT, collection privée 347 (formerly Schøyen Collection 246; Dolveck #53 in the Sidonius Companion, p. 527), is now freely accessible online.
Horváth on Sidonius in Hungary
Ágnes Horváth, ‘Sidonius a középkor és a reneszánsz magyar irodalmában’, Antikvitás & Reneszánsz 9 (2022) 69-86, discusses Sidonius’ role in the Hungarian literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Read here
Horváth on Sidonius’ Ancestry
Ágnes T. Horváth, ‘Supplements to the Ancestry of Sidonius Apollinaris’, Chronica 22 (2023) 154-63, investigates Sidonius’ ancestry and the gens Sollia.
Yilmazata on Flavius Aetius
Mehmet Yilmazata wrote ‘Notes on Flavius Aetius, “The Last of the Romans”: A Representation in Historiography’, Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology 9 (2022) 53-75.
Online here