Van Waarden Reviews Ungvary

Joop van Waarden has written a review of David Ungvary, Converting Verse: The Poetics of Asceticism in Late Roman Gaul (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity), Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024 just published in Vigiliae Christianae. Advance publication on Brill’s website

Ungvary on the Poetics of Asceticism

David Ungvary wrote Converting Verse: The Poetics of Asceticism in Late Roman Gaul, Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity, Oxford: OUP, 2024. See item in catalogue here Has a chapter on Sidonius: ‘Announcing Renunciation: Sidonius Apollinaris and Poetic Disavowal’. The blurb…

The Deserts of the West

Laurent Ripart has written a comprehensive study of the earliest monasteries of South-Eastern Gaul including the islands along the coasts of Tuscany, Liguria (Gallinaria) and Provence (Lérins), in Arles, the Rhône valley, and the Jura (Agaune): Les déserts de l’Occident.…