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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…
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…
At the invitation of the EHESS, Fabrizio Oppedisano (SNS Pisa) is to give four lectures in Paris, in October and November, on Late Antiquity and the Early Middle-Ages. Two bear on fifth-century Gaul: ‘L’empereur Majorien à Lyon: la vision “poétique”…
Sidonius’ poem for the dedication of Bishop Patiens’ church in Lyon (Carm. 27 in Ep. 2.10, including the prose introduction paras 2b-4) has been translated into French and Russian by Sergey Kim as part of a two-volume box Les saints…
Links to two digitized manuscripts from the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel have been added to the Manuscripts page.
New Appointment Sara Fascione has been recently appointed as ‘chargée de cours’ of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Liège, in Belgium. She will work on the letter collections by Fronto, Symmachus and, of course, Sidonius, trying to…
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…
