Your Research Companion
Your Research Companion
Joop van Waarden has written a review of David Ungvary, Converting Verse: The Poetics of Asceticism in Late Roman Gaul (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity), Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024 just published in Vigiliae Christianae. Advance publication on Brill’s website
Étienne Wolff, ‘Quelques jeux sur les sons et les mots passés inaperçus: Mart. II 65; Sidon. epist. I 8; Anth. Lat. 190 R.’, Sileno 51 (2025) 195-208. See summary
Now available: Gavin Kelly and Aaron Pelttari (eds), The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature, 2 vols, Cambridge: CUP, 2026. Contents: 1. Histories of later Latin literature Gavin Kelly and Aaron Pelttari I. Later Latin Literature in its Social and…
Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters now has its own page in the ‘Publications’ section of the Propylaeum portal ‘Sidonius Apollinaris’, which carries on the sidonapol.org initiative. This page, among other things, features an overview of the letters selected for the book…
Alison John’s Learning and Power in Late Antique Gaul is published. It is available for purchase here.
Joop van Waarden’s ‘Green & Yellow’ Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters is published. There is a 20% discount on this title expiring 31 March, code JOOP2026. For more information, and to order visit the Cambridge catalogue, entering the code at checkout. Download…
Francesco Montone introduces, translates and comments on the Panegyric of Majorian in ‘Un poeta, l’imperatore Maggioriano (457-461) … e la Campania: Il secondo panegirico di Sidonio Apollinare’, Salternum 29, issues 54-55 (2025) 65-104. Read in Academia
Manuscript Périgord 43, in the French National Library, is a volume of notes by Abbé Lespine (1757-1831) towards a Vitae sanctorum Petragorici; on f. 31 r., it contains a list of selected letters by Sidonius according to their addressees, most…
Early-modern and modern commentaries are typically found as part of editions of Sidonius’ work. There is, however, a separate manuscript series of notes towards a commentary on the Epithalamium for Ruricius and Hiberia (Carm. 10-11) by the French historiographer Étienne…
Joop van Waarden reviews Ann-Kathrin Stähle, Quid poema frangat? Zur Poetik des Bruchs in den Carmina des Sidonius Apollinaris, Hermes-Einzelschriften 127, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025, in Plekos 28 (2026) 1-9.
