M. Antonia Fornés Pallicer and Mercè Puig Rodríguez-Escalona write on ‘Non-Verbal Communication in Ancient Rome: Eyebrow Gestures’ in Languages 9:92 (2024), 18 pp.
There are references to Sidonius Carm. 15.189-90 and Ep. 8.9.2.
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Lucy Grig has put out Popular Culture and the End of Antiquity in Southern Gaul, c. 400–550, Cambridge: CUP.
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1 Introduction: Popular Culture and the Study of (Late) Ancient History 1
2 Urban Contexts for Popular Culture in an Age of Transformation 36
3 Popular Culture, Society and Economy: The Countryside in Transition in Late Antiquity 73
4 Christianizing Popular Culture: The View ‘from the Pulpit’ 110
5 An Alternative View: Lived Religion As Popular Culture 144
6 The Kalends of January: The Persistence of Popular Culture 173
7 Conclusions: Popular Culture and the End of Antiquity? 219
Dmitry Starostin writes on ‘Astronomical Cycles and Late Antique Chronology’ in arXiv:2403.03682 [physics.hist-ph], 6 March 2024, 24 pp.
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Heightened eschatological sensitivity is in evidence among the historians writing in the 5th century caused by the irregularities of the lunisolar calendar and its particular realization, the Easter calendar. Crucial years include 410, 467 and 476. Sidonius on p. 13.
Gavin Kelly signals a work of historical fiction: At the Ruin of the World, by John Henry Clay (London, 2015), heavily based on Sidonius, covering events from Vicus Helena in 448 down to Avitus’ defeat, with Ecdicius as the lead character.
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Call for Papers. Deadline 30 April 2024
The Jeweled Materiality of Late Antique/Early Medieval Objects and Texts From Cloisonné to Stained Glass to Experimental Poetry (4th–9th Centuries)
International conference, November 11–12, 2024
Center for Early Medieval Studies, Masaryk University, Brno
Organizers: Alberto Virdis, Marie Okáčová
The interface among the material, visual, and literary cultures of the long late antiquity and beyond has become a topic of scholarly interest ever since the publication of the seminal 1989 book The Jeweled Style by Michael Roberts. The visual–verbal dialectics of this period of geopolitical and cultural transformation, as manifested in various instances of spoliation, patterns of fragmentation, and a preoccupation with (exquisite) detail in different cultural media, were subsequently studied especially by Jaś Elsner and Jesús Hernández Lobato. The topical relevance of Roberts’ original concept more than 30 years after its invention is clear from, among other scholarly endeavors, the recent edited volume A Late Antique Poetics? The Jeweled Style Revisited (2023), which offers numerous insightful contributions on the topic across different genres, regions, and temporal contexts.
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The University of Bari is hiring a post-doctoral researcher for the project ‘Tradition and reception of Apuleius’ works in fifth-century Gaul’, with particular attention to Sidonius.
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‘During the research period, the postdoctoral fellow will be required to trace an articulate picture of the reception and transmission of Apuleius’ texts in fifth-century Gaul. In particular, the research will concern the mentions of Apuleius and his literary output throughout the corpus of Sidonius Apollinaris. Although there is a consensus that he was read and appreciated by Apollinaris and his learned friends (notably Claudianus Mamertus), it is only through an exegesis of Sidonius’ Carmina and Letters that it will be possible to shed light on the linguistic and stylistic reception of Apuleius in the works of Sidonius and his literary circle of friends.’
James Ker, The Ordered Day: Quotidian Time and Forms of Life in Ancient Rome, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2023.
To the catalogue. On pp. 287-90: ‘Days with Sidonius Apollinaris (Letters 2.9)’
Judith Hindermann, ‘Grabepigramm und Trauerbrief: Plinius der Jüngere, Martial, Ausonius, Hieronymus und Sidonius Apollinaris’, in: T. Fögen and N. Mindt (eds), Brief und Epigramm. Bezüge und Wechselwirkungen zwischen zwei Textsorten in Antike und Mittelalter, 2024, 197-228.
She discusses Ep. 2.8 about Filimatia in connection with similar letters. Go to volume.
Margot Neger, ‘Brief und Epigramm in den Nachrufen auf Literaten bei Sidonius Apollinaris (Epist. 4,11 und 8,11)’, in: Thorsten Fögen and Nina Mindt (eds), Brief und Epigramm, Berlin: De Gruyter, 229-58.
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In memoriam prof. dr. Luce Pietri (1931-2024)
C’est avec une immense tristesse que l’Association pour l’Antiquité tardive a appris la disparition de Mme Luce Pietri, professeur émérite à l’Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne et membre d’honneur de notre association. Éminente spécialiste de l’Antiquité tardive et de l’histoire du christianisme, notamment de la Gaule, Luce Pietri a consacré sa thèse à la ville de Tours, publiée en 1983 à l’École française de Rome. Élève de Henri-Irénée Marrou, elle a participé aux projets initiés par ce dernier à la Sorbonne, comme le Recueil des Inscriptions Chrétiennes de la Gaule, pour lequel elle était chargée de la Belgique Seconde. Par ses connaissances des sources antiques, elle a joué un grand rôle dans la réussite du projet de la Topographie chrétienne des Cités de la Gaule, pour laquelle elle a rédigé de nombreuses notices. Épouse de Charles Pietri, ancien directeur de l’École française de Rome, elle a codirigé avec lui les premiers volumes de l’Histoire du Christianisme (1995-2000), puis la publication des volumes de l’Italie de la collection de la Prosopographie chrétienne du Bas-Empire (1990-2000), suivie en 2014 par ceux consacrés à la Gaule (avec Marc Heijmans). À la fin de sa vie, Luce Pietri est revenue à ses premiers amours, en publiant en 2016 une édition de la Vie des Pères de Grégoire de Tours, puis en 2023, des Miracles de saint Martin.
Marc Heijmans
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