Your Research Companion
Your Research Companion
Ann-Kathrin Stähle got her doctorate at the University of Basel (2022, summa cum laude, supervisor Prof. Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer): ‘…quid poema frangat? Zur Poetik des Bruchs in den Carmina des Sidonius Apollinaris’.
A Hamburg dissertation made available: Rocco Selvaggi, Erfolgreiche Vertragskonzepte oder foedera incerta? – Die weströmische Außenpolitik des 5. Jahrhunderts im Spiegel der römisch-germanischen Vereinbarungen, Hamburg: Hamburg University Press, 2020. Open access in Aopen.
Christelle Ehrhardt got her doctorate in archaeology and prehistory at Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III with ‘Bâtir une église, fonder une mémoire, asseoir une autorité: lieux de culte et représentations du passé dans les campagnes des anciens diocèses de Bordeaux,…
On Friday 12 March, Giulia Marolla will defend her PhD thesis ‘Sidonius Apollinaris, Letters Book 5 (Epp. 1-10): Text, Translation, and Commentary’ at the University of San Marino. Supervisor: Prof. Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh).
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…
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…
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…
Madeleine St. Marie (UC Riverside) has begun her PhD thesis on ‘Sidonius Apollinaris the Bishop’, in which she is to investigate power, authority, and episcopal self-presentation in fifth-century Gaul. Supervisor: Prof. Michele Salzman Duration: 2018-2020 email | website
Camille Bonnan-Garçon (Lyon) writes about Sidonius’ favourable image of Theodoric and about the changing roles of letters and panegyrics for praising monarchs in Interférences 11, 2018. She has just finished her doctoral dissertation: ‘L’épigramme et la lettre d’Ausone à Ennode…
Veronika Egetenmeyer has handed in her doctoral dissertation (Kiel): ‘Die Konstruktion des “Anderen”: Barbarenbilder in den Briefen des Sidonius Apollinaris’, to be defended in November.
