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.
Look it up here.
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.
Click here for the item in the publisher’s catalogue.
Hindermann’s Book 2 Announced
The publication of Judith Hindermann’s Sidonius Apollinaris’ Letters, Book 2: Text, Translation and Commentary has been announced by Edinburgh University Press for September 2022. It is part of the new series ‘Edinburgh Studies in Later Latin Literature’.
Go here for the announcement.
Featured image: Department of Classical Studies, University of Basel.
Viva Willum Westenholz
The New Late Antiquity Reviewed
Filomena Giannotti reviews Clifford Ando and Marco Formisano’s The New Late Antiquity: A Gallery of Intellectual Portraits in Quaderni di storia 95 (2022) 329-35
Tittse on Sidonius’ Network
Celis Tittse (BA student in Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen) contributes a paper entitled ‘A Changing Roman World and Its Networks’ in which he makes an attempt at comparing the networks of Sidonius and Avitus in evidence in their correspondences, applying Social Network Analysis and statistical methods. To this end, Ralph Mathisen kindly made available the Sidonius database that is also at the basis of his chapters ‘Sidonius’ People’ and ‘A Prosopography of Sidonius’ in the Companion (pp. 29-165).
Download Celis’ paper from the Contributions page. On the same page, there is a link to the fully scalable graphs and figures.
Müller Reviews Hanaghan
‘Insgesamt verdient es Hanaghans Studie, zu einem Standardwerk der Sidonius-Forschung zu werden’ is the conclusion of Gernot Michael Müller’s review of Michael Hanaghan’s 2019 monograph Reading Sidonius’ Epistles.
Published in Sehepunkte 21.5 (15 May 2021). Read here
Earlier reviews include van Waarden in Plekos 21 (2019) 308-309 and Neger in Gymnasium 126 (2019) 610-12.
