Your Research Companion
Your Research Companion
New out Roy Gibson and Christopher Whitton (eds), The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature, CUP 2024. Sidonius specifically figures in Gavin Kelly’s chapter on Periodisations (pp. 97-157) “The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of…
In Historische Zeitschrift 319(2), Veronika Egetenmeyr just published a review of Giulia Marolla, Sidonius. Letters Book 5, Part 1. Text, Translation, and Commentary, Edinburgh 2023. ‘Giulia Marolla hat mit ihrer Arbeit einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur Sidoniusforschung geleistet. Besonders der Kommentar…
Laurent Ripart, ‘The bipolar organisation of early Lerinian monasticism’, at the Ewa Wipszycka Warsaw Late Antique Seminar, 3 October. Giulia Marolla, ‘”Artigli di sfinge” e “spire di serpente”. Due casi di vituperatio nell’epistolario di Sidonio Apollinare’, at the Giornate di…
David Ungvary wrote Converting Verse: The Poetics of Asceticism in Late Roman Gaul, Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity, Oxford: OUP, 2024. See item in catalogue here Has a chapter on Sidonius: ‘Announcing Renunciation: Sidonius Apollinaris and Poetic Disavowal’. The blurb…
Yesterday, 18 September 2024, the editorial board of Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity presented the new print edition to the Pope. The work consists of six volumes and is also available online.
On Monday 9 September, Matthijs Zoeter received his Doctorate in History in Ghent with a thesis titled ‘Beyond the Letter: (Self-)Presentation of Basil of Caesarea in his Letters, Letter Collection, and Manuscripts’ (supervisor Prof. Lieve Van Hoof, co-supervisor Dr Jeroen…
In the latest issue of Athenaeum (112/1, June 2024), there are reviews of F. Oppedisano (ed.), Procopio Antemio, imperatore di Roma, Bari 2020 (by A. Sassoli), and of F. Giannotti, Scrinia Arverna, Pisa 2021 (by S. Condorelli).
Peter Heather and John Rapley, Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023. Listed here. Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, around the…
Coming soon, the international conference ‘The Making of the Author: Self-Fashioning in Letter Collections Across the Mediterranean (4th-14th c.)’. Giulia Marolla will give a paper on Sidonius: ‘Authorial self-fashioning and editorial designs in Sidonius’ letter collection’. 4-6 September 2024, University…
Camille Bonnan-Garçon, ‘Munus flatteur, présent ou sportule? Le billet accompagnant un cadeau dans l’Antiquité tardive’, in: Thomas Deswarte, Klaus Herbers and Nathanaël Nimmegeers (eds), Epistola IV. La lettre dans son environnement, ive-xie siècle, Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2024, 181-95. Available…
