Margot Neger has made her Habilitationskolloquium at the University of Salzburg on 3 May 2019. Its title was: ‘Spätantike Nachrufe auf Literaten: Die Gedichte des Sidonius Apollinaris auf Claudianus Mamertus und den Rhetor Lampridius (Epist. 4,11,6 und 8,11,3)’. Her Habilitationsschrift is ‘Epistolare Narrationen. Studien zur Erzähltechnik des jüngeren Plinius’.
Buongiorno, Pierangelo, ‘Ex vetere senatusconsulto Tiberiano. Nota in margine a Sid. ep. 1.7.12′, in Emmanuelle Chevreau et al. (eds), Liber amicorum. Mélanges en l’honneur de Jean-Pierre Coriat, Paris, 2019, 65-72.
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By ascribing to Tiberius a law that was only promulgated much later by Theodosius, conceding a longer lease of life to people on death row, Sidonius plausibly wanted to lend greater authority to this law in favour of Arvandus.
Just published, a survey by Alice Tyrrell: Merovingian Letters and Letter Writers, Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin 12, Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. In it, Chapter 1: Amicitia Networks Part 1: Sidonius Apollinaris to Nicetius of Trier and Friends.
Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer writes about ‘Pallas Athena im gallo-römischen Narbonne. Der “Tempel” der Philosophie und der “Tempel” der Webkunst bei Sidonius Apollinaris, carm. 15′, in Bardo M. Gauly, Gernot M. Müller, and Michael Rathmann (eds), Dialoge mit dem Altertum. Sinnstiftungen aus der Vergangenheit in Antike, Früher Neuzeit und Moderne, Heidelberg: Winter, 2019, 161-76.
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The harmony of parts skillfully put together, concinnitas in Ausonius and Sidonius Apollinaris, is the subject of Marco Onorato’s latest article in Étienne Wolff (ed.), La réception d’Ausone dans les littératures européennes.
See Bibliography 2019.
One can argue about dates and periods, but there is nothing like a good anniversary – for instance, in Toulouse. So here goes the 1.600th anniversary of the foundation of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toulouse. Read on.
In production: Emmanuelle Raga, ‘Aristocrats, Christians, and Barbarians at the Banquet: Food Practices, Inclusion and Exclusion in Fifth-Century Gaul According to Sidonius Apollinaris’, in: Yaniv Fox and Erica Buchberger (eds), Inclusion and Exclusion in Mediterranean Christianities, 400-800, CELAMA 25, Turnhout: Brepols, 2019.
Michael Hanaghan has published: ‘Sidonius Apollinaris and the Making of an Exile Persona’, in: Dirk Rohmann, Jörg Ulrich, and Margarita Vallejo Girvés (eds), Mobility and Exile at the End of Antiquity, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2018, 259-72.
See catalogue Peter Lang.
Sidonius’ famous motto “Well aware that one’s thoughts are exposed in a letter collection like a face in a mirror” guides Luciana Furbetta’s recently published article (going back to a 2014 conference) on the concept of a letter as a mirror of self in his correspondence.
See the website Bibliography, tab 2018.
In Vichiana 56-1, 33-60, Francesco Montone just published: ‘Il Panegirico ad Antemio di Sidonio Apollinare: metapoetica e intratestualità’.
Read abstract: MONTONE IL PANEGIRICO AD ANTEMIO 2019
