Just out: Alison John, ‘Cultural Memory and Classical Education in Late Antique Gaul’, in: Martine De Marre and Rajiv K. Bhola (eds), Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory, Abingdon: Routledge, 2022.
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NOVELTY: Sirmond Travels to Rome
Gavin Kelly discovered a forgotten poem by Jacques Sirmond in a 1993 article.
Sidonius’ editor Jacques Sirmond (1559-1651), when still a young man, was summoned to Rome by the general of the Jesuit order to serve as his secretary. He describes his arduous voyage from Paris to Rome (August-December 1590) in a Hodoeporicum that is clearly reminiscent of Rutilius’ De reditu suo and, above all, Sidonius’ letter 1.5 with the description of his voyage from Lyon to Rome.
Find this article on JSTOR: ‘L’Hodoeporicum de Jacques Sirmond, S.J.: Journal poétique d’un voyage de Paris à Rome en 1590′, Humanistica Lovaniensia 42 (1993) 301-22, or download the 1993 instalment of the journal in open access.
Bleckmann on Apollonius’ Vita
Bruno Bleckmann reconsiders Van Hoof and Van Nuffelen’s rejection of the translation of the Vita Apollonii (Ep. 8.3.1) for being a spurium, referring, among others, to Mülke 2008, 236-43, and Köhler 2014.
Bruno Bleckmann, ‘Eine Fragmentsammlung spätlateinischer Historiker’, review article of Van Hoof and Van Nuffelen 2020, Histos 16 (2022) I-XXIX, esp. II-IV.
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Upcoming Leeds IMC22
Featuring among others:
Lisa Bailey on Women in Service
Audrey Becker on Women in the Lex Burgundionum
Veronika Egetenmeyr on Education at the Visigothic and Burgundian Courts
Jeroen Wijnendaele on the Emergence of Queens.
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Bedon on Sidonius’ Travels
Just out: Robert Bedon, ‘Présence, rôles et aspects des voyages de Sidoine Apollinaire et de ses relations dans la vie et l’œuvre de cet auteur’, Vita Latina 202 (2022).
Earlier relevant publications by Robert Bedon:
Rus amoenum: les agréments de la vie rurale en Gaule romaine et dans les régions voisines (ed.), Caesarodunum 37–38, Limoges, 2004.
‘Les auteurs latins et le voyage thérapeutique: à la recherche d’une nature bienfaisante’, in: Christine de Buzon and Odile Richard-Pauchet (eds), Le corps et l’esprit en voyage: le voyage thérapeutique, Paris: Garnier, 2012, 17-44.
‘Les glaces de la Loire et le séjour en Touraine d’un futur empereur romain dans l’œuvre d’un écrivain gaulois du Ve siècle de notre ère’, Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Touraine 27 (2014) 17-33.
‘Le séjour et les actions d’un futur empereur romain au bord de la Loire prise par les glaces (Sidoine Apollinaire, Carmina V, 206-211’, RIPARIA 2 (2016) 93-113.
‘L’accès des femmes aux livres et aux bibliothèques familiales en Gaule romaine’, La Revue de la BNU 14 (2016) 26-35.
Harich-Schwarzbauer on Carm. 15
Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer contributes ‘Satirische Transformation des Epithalamiums des Sidonius Apollinaris, Carm. 15’ to Lavinia Galli Milić and Annick Stoehr-Monjou (eds), Au-delà de l’épithalame. Le mariage dans la littérature latine (IIIe s. av. – VIe s. ap. J.-C.), just published by Brepols.
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Becker on Imperial and Royal Power
Audrey Becker has published Dieu, le souverain et la cour. Stratégies et rituels de légitimation du pouvoir impérial et royal dans l’Antiquité tardive et au haut Moyen Âge, Scripta antiqua 151, Bordeaux: Ausonius Editions, 2022.
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Neri on the Barbarian Body
Valerio Neri (Bologna) gave a keynote speech entitled ‘Representation and aesthetic evaluation of the barbarian body in Late ancient literature’ at the Maynooth University conference ‘Reading Beauty in Late Antiquity’, on 26 November 2021.
Text on Academia. Sidonius on Theodoric figures on pp. 2-3.
Davis on Rurality and Romanitas
Ben Davis (University of California, Los Angeles) is to speak on “Rurality and Romanitas: Sidonius Apollinaris and the Poetics of Landscape in Late Antique Gaul” at the 51st Annual Meeting of CAPN (Willamette University, Salem).
Date/time: Saturday 19 March, 10:15 PDT.
Website: www.capn-classics.org/
Now Out: Giannotti Scrinia Arverna
Now out: Filomena Giannotti, Scrinia Arverna: Studi su Sidonio Apollinare, Studi e testi di storia antica 29, Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2021.
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