Your Research Companion
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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…
Pedro Benedetti wrote ‘Beyond Aristocratic Strategies: Popular and Subaltern Experiences in Sidonius’ Letters (430-486 AD)’, Alethéia vol. 1 issue 2 (2022) 69-82 [published in 2024]. Free access online. Version in Portuguese here
Florica Bohîlţea-Mihuţ, ‘Classical Authors in Sidonius Apollinaris’ Letters’, Classica et Christiana 19 (2024) 389-99. Open Access: issue online Contrary to what the title suggests, this article discusses the use of colour in Sidonius.
Céline Urlacher-Becht published the article ‘“Gaule” et “Italie” dans les épîtres de la fin Ve-début VIe siècle: stratégies littéraires et enjeux identitaires’ in Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa s. 5, 15/2 (2023) 309-53. Pages 312-19 bear on Ep.…
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…
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…
An article on ‘The impact of climate change on the agriculture and the economy of Southern Gaul: New perspectives of agent-based modelling’ by Nicolas Bernigaud et al. was published online in PLoS One 2024, 19(3), e0298895. It tentatively confirms, among…
Of interest for scholars of late antiquity as well: Justin Lake on ‘The Malicious Barking of Critics: A Literary-Historical Approach to the topos of Anticipated Criticism’ in The Medieval Chronicle vol. 16 (2023).
M. Antonia Fornés Pallicer and Mercè Puig Rodríguez-Escalona write on ‘Non-Verbal Communication in Ancient Rome: Eyebrow Gestures’ in Languages 9:92 (2024), 18 pp. There are references to Sidonius Carm. 15.189-90 and Ep. 8.9.2. Read here online in open access
Dmitry Starostin writes on ‘Astronomical Cycles and Late Antique Chronology’ in arXiv:2403.03682 [physics.hist-ph], 6 March 2024, 24 pp. Access via arXiv Heightened eschatological sensitivity is in evidence among the historians writing in the 5th century caused by the irregularities of…
