Category: Article

Horváth on Gastronomy

Ágnes T. Horváth, ‘Változá valóság, irodalmi toposzok, intertextualitás Sidonius Apollinaris, gastronómiai köslézeiben’ [Changing reality, literary topos, intertextuality in the gastronomic contexts of Sidonius Apollinaris], in: Zsolt Hunyadi and Tomás Kőfalvi (eds), Napok, évek, századok: Tanulmányok Almási Tibor 65. születésnapjára [Days, Years, Centuries: Studies for Tibor Almasi’s 65th Birthday], Szeged: Szeged University, Institute of History, 2024, 165-79.

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Furbetta on Landscape, Natural and Anthropic

Just published: Luciana Furbetta, ‘Paesaggio naturale e paesaggio antropico: rappresentazioni, interazioni e pratiche sociali tra scambi epistolari e divertissements poetici (IV-VI sec. d.C.)’, in: Ida Gilda Mastrorosa and Élisabeth Gavoille (eds), La villa et ses ressources naturelles, de l’Antiquité à la première modernité / La villa e le sue risorse naturali fra antichità e prima età moderna, Scripta receptoria 27. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2024, 69-92.

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Freely Available: Where Did Sidonius Live?

John Collis kindly makes available his 2023 article ‘Where Did Sidonius Apollinaris Live?’ Download it here.

It was announced on this website some time ago and appeared in March 2023. It can now be downloaded from this website.

John Collis is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. He has carried out excavations in the Auvergne around Clermont-Ferrand and Gergovia, among other regions. In this article, he makes a case for the continuity of late Roman churches and burial sites to the early modern period on the basis of two new digs of churches in the Auvergne. This would heighten the probability of modern Aydat and its church as the site of Sidonius’ and Papianilla’s Avitacum, no doubt provided with a chapel and a graveyard. Any comments are welcome: j.r.collis AT sheffield.ac.uk

Van Waarden on a New Allusion to Lucan

Joop van Waarden comes up with a new allusion to Pompey’s tomb in Lucan, shedding light on the death of Sidonius’ grandfather: ‘The Death and Public Rehabilitation of Apollinaris the Elder: Intertextuality with Lucan in Sidonius Apollinaris, Epist. 3.12’, CQ FirstView 30 April 2024.

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Corsi and Morvillez on Hospitality

Two articles on hospitality have been published:

Cristina Corsi, ‘”Strangers on the way”: hospitalité, identité et défis lors des voyages à la fin de l’Antiquité’, in: Fauchon-Claudon and Le Guennec 2002, 303-20.

Éric Morvillez, ‘Louer l’hospitalité des évêques dans l’Antiquité tardive en Gaule: entre traditions et nouvelles exigences chrétiennes’, in: Fauchon-Claudon and Le Guennec 2022, 87-103.

These items are included in the conference proceedings Hospitalité et régulation de l’altérité dans l’Antiquité méditerranéenne, edited by Claire Fauchon-Claudon and Marie-Adeline Le Guennec, Scripta Antiqua 156, Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2022.