David Ungvary wrote Converting Verse: The Poetics of Asceticism in Late Roman Gaul, Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity, Oxford: OUP, 2024.
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Has a chapter on Sidonius: ‘Announcing Renunciation: Sidonius Apollinaris and Poetic Disavowal’. The blurb reads:
- Offers one of the first English translations of Ennodius’s Eucharisticon, among the earliest successors to Augustine’s Confessions
- Provides a new cultural history of Christian Latin poetry, with a focus on Gaul
- Illuminates the strong social affiliations and literary interplay among understudied and non-canonical Latin authors of Late Antiquity
- Employs a diverse interpretive methodology, drawing from Classics, religious studies, historiography, and literary theory, to update literary historical analysis of postclassical poetry
