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Dr Lütjohann, I presume?

From now on, “Lütjohann” is the spelling to stick to despite the hugely (but unduly) influential MGH spelling “Luetjohann”. “Lütjohann” was the way this scholar wrote his own name. Take a look at his signature in his collations from Florence,…

Hendrik Hess Doctorate

Hendrik Hess has taken his doctorate at the University of Bonn with a thesis about the self-concept of the Gallo-Roman elite. The book is to be published next year as “Das Selbstverständnis der gallo-römischen Oberschicht im historischen Diskursraum von Sidonius…

Doctorate Alison John

Alison John has completed her doctorate at the University of Edinburgh (supervisors Gavin Kelly and Lucy Grig) and will graduate this November. Her thesis, Learning and Power: A Cultural History of Education in Late Antique Gaul engaged with Sidonius and…

New: Brill Early Christianity Online

The new Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (BEEC) focuses on the history of early Christianity, covering texts, authors, and ideas. The BEEC aims both to provide a critical review of the methods used in Early Christian Studies and also to…

Doctorate Lucie Desbrosses

Lucie Desbrosses has got her doctorate at the University of Besançon (supervisor Stéphane Ratti). The title of her thesis is: ‘Sidoine Apollinaire et la Gaule chrétienne au Ve siècle’. Abstract: ‘This dissertation investigates how Sidonius Apollinaris’ poetry and letters shed…

Southern Gaul in Series

Amsterdam University Press are publishing a series, edited by Jamie Wood, about Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia. Its scope, however, extends to southern Gaul. Six volumes published so far. The series has got a new webpage.

The ‘other’ epitaph

Now on this website, with kind permission of the owners and ©IRHT, a beautiful image of the variant text of Sidonius’ epitaph in manuscript Paris, IRHT, Collections privées, CP 347, f. 132v-133r. See the Epitaph page.

Reading Sidonius’ Epistles

Michael Hanaghan has written a monograph on Sidonius’ Epistles, about to be published by Cambridge University Press in January 2019. From the blurb in the catalogue: ‘This book provides a fuller understanding of [Sidonius’] contribution to Latin literature, as a…

Ausonius in Sidonius

Luciana Furbetta and Marisa Squillante have contributed essays on Sidonius to the new volume of conference proceedings Ausone en 2015: Bilan et nouvelles perspectives, edited by Étienne Wolff. See the Bibliography page, tab 2018