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, Bazas et Agen au premier Moyen Âge (IVe-XIe siècle)’. Sidonius figures on pp. 102-22 with the private chapel of the Burgus of Pontius Leontius in particular.
Read it here
Joop van Waarden got a contract with Cambridge University Press for writing a Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters commentary in the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series (‘Green and Yellow’), to be ready by September 2024.
The provisional table of contents is:
LETTER – SUBJECT MATTER
1.1 Correspondence: structure and style
1.5 Rome: journey, literary landscape
1.7 Rome: Arvandus, treason or adjustment
1.9 Rome: court, panegyric
1.10 Rome: city prefect
2.2 Villa: invitation, Avitacum, architecture, Pliny
2.8 Women: death of Philomathia, epitaph
2.10 Church: building, ekphrasis, poem
3.9 Correspondence: recommendation, Riothamus
3.12 Family: grandfather, epitaph
4.19 Correspondence: shortest letter
4.20 Barbarians: marriage Sigismer
5.5 Barbarians and Roman culture: Syagrius mastering Burgundian
5.16 Family: career prospectives (to his wife)
7.1 War and church: to Mamertus
7.7 War and politics: demise of Clermont
7.17 Asceticism: political powerplay, abbot Abraham, Lérins
7.18 Correspondence: structure
8.1 Correspondence: structure
8.3 Apollonius of Tyana, court, exile
8.15 Correspondence: refusal to write history, promise of hagiography
9.16 Correspondence: structure, poetry
Jan Willem Drijvers and Meaghan McEvoy have edited a special issue of the Journal of Late Antiquity: ‘Envisioning the Roman Emperor in Speech and Word in Late Antiquity’, vol. 14.1, Spring 2021.
Giulia Marolla has published ‘Il trasformismo dell’aristocrazia gallica nelle epistole di Sidonio Apollinare / Political Flexibility of the Gallic Aristocracy in Sidonius’ Letters’, eClassica 6 (2020) 59-71. Its motto is from the Gattopardo: Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga com’è, bisogna che tutto cambi.
Recently out: Francesco Montone, ‘Imperatori romani a caccia. L’Ars venandi nei panegirici di Sidonio Apollinare’, Salternum 44-45 (2020) 79-100.
Still online and not to be missed, the exposition in Musée Saint-Raymond, Toulouse, on the occasion of the settlement of the Visigoths in Toulouse, 1600 years ago.
In a 360◦ virtual visit, a unique collection of the most important Visigothic finds is on display. Here goes to the exhibition.
An important catalogue of the exposition is on sale in the (virtual) museum shop (€ 35).
Isabella Gualandri praises Lo specchio del modello in her review in CR 71 (2020) 125-27: ‘This volume offers precious hints of novelty’.
The Association pour l’Antiquité Tardive has got a new website featuring news, publications, and a picture gallery.
This week, Sigrid Mratschek opens the Gallia docta conference (Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, digital) with a public keynote speech entitled ‘Sidonius’ kunstsinnige Muse’.
Date and time: Wednesday 17 March 2021, 18:00 h CET. Admission through the dedicated webpage.
The conference is organised by Tabea Meurer and Veronika Egetenmeyr. Webpage here.
Papers (registration necessary):
Tabea Meurer & Veronika Egetenmeyr, Theoretical approaches to inclusion and exclusion. Response: Peter Gemeinhardt.
Christian Stadermann, Barbarians within the gates. Integration and separation in late Roman Gaul.
Nikolas Hächler, The value of classical education (paideia) reflected in the material culture of the later Roman Empire.
Joop van Waarden, The consummate gentleman weighs his ‘You’ and ‘I’.
Gernot M. Müller, Gemeinschaftsbildung und Selbstvergewisserung. Zu Stil und Komposition der carmina minora des Sidonius Apollinaris.
Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser, ‘Bei solchem Zank öffnet sich der Satire ein weites Feld’. Schlagfertigkeit und briefliches Selbstbewusstsein in Sidonius Brief 1,11.
Raphael Schwitter, The schools of Gaul revisited – old questions and new perspectives.
Willum Westenholz, When you have nothing nice to say … Hostile letters of recommendation in late antique Gaul.
Hendrik Hess, The role of women in Gallic letter collections in the second half of the 5th century.
Maik Patzelt, Widows, nuns and religious knowledge in Gallic cloisters.
Judith Hindermann, Lists as a means of education in Sidonius Apollinaris’ letters and poems.
Alison John, Bilingualism in literary circles of Gaul.
Danuta Shanzer, Count Arbogast addressed by Sidonius and Auspicius of Toul – an episcopal eye for a barbarian guy?
Stefano Magnani is to give a paper on ‘Non solo rane e zanzare. Paesaggi padani nella descrizione del viaggio in Italia di Sidonio Apollinare’ at the online conference ‘Italia settentrionale e regioni dell´arco alpino tra V e VI secolo’, 15-17 april 2021.
Date/time: 15 april, 18.00 h.
Meeting-ID: 93446094423 – Code: 464511 – https://zoom.us/j/93446094423?pwd=UDF1alB0Qk1jaHhVT29 MU28ydHJGdz09
Conference programme: https://www.fasticongressuum.com/single-post/italia-settentrionale-e-regioni-dell-arco-alpino-tra-v-e-vi-sicolo-15-16-17-04-2021-online
