Your Research Companion
Your Research Companion
Aleksander Paradziński writes on ‘Romano-Barbarian Amicitia: Shaping the Discourse and Sustaining Political and Social Networks’ in Palamedes 15 (2025) 53–75. Read in Knowledge Commons Abstract Links of amicitia were an essential element of the Roman elite’s inner relations and a…
Vladimir V. Bredikhin wrote an article ‘From Barbarian to Citizen: The Road to Roman Identity in the Late Antique Narrative Tradition’, published in Scientific Notes of V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. Historical Science, 12 (78) no 1 (2026) 3-17. Read…
Reviews have appeared of Veronika Egetenmeyr, Die Konstruktion der ‘Anderen’. Barbarenbilder in den Briefen des Sidonius Apollinaris: – Hendrik Hess in Plekos 26 (2024) 301–306 – Nikolas Hächler in BMCR 2024.08.12.
Marzia Fiorentini (University of St Andrews – Sapienza Università di Roma) passed her viva with the PhD thesis ‘Tyrants in Late Antiquity: A Rhetorical and Historical Analysis of Claudian and Sidonius’, supervised by Roger Rees and Gianfranco Agosti. Abstract: The…
Peter Kruschwitz, ‘Notions of Barbarians and Barbarian Lands in the Latin Verse Inscriptions’, Medieval Worlds 16 (2022) 163-94. Pp. 179-81 deal with barbarians in Sidonius’ epitaph. | The article is in open access: download here.
Just out: Veronika Egetenmeyr, Die Konstruktion der ‘Anderen’. Barbarenbilder in den Briefen des Sidonius Apollinaris, Philippika 165, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2022. Find it here
Gabriel Reis’ master thesis at the University of Santa Maria (Brasil) has been published. The book is titled Identitades e Fronteiras na Antiguidade Tardia and investigates power negotiations among Romans based in Gaul and Italy and Germanic people. It is…
Out in the latest Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome: Massimiliano Vitiello, ‘The “Fear” of the Barbarians and the Fifth-Century Western Chroniclers’, MAAR 66 (2021) 115-50. Read in JSTOR open access.
Veronika Egetenmeyr is interviewed on her work on “others” aka “barbarians” in a series produced by the University of Oldenburg. Watch here. She has also just put out an article on this issue titled “Kontingenz und die Konstruktion des ‘Anderen’”…
Giulia Marolla reviews Sara Fascione’s “Gli ‘altri’ al potere” in Plekos 23 (2021) 237-41.
