Novel At the Ruin of the World

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…

Clay on Wilderness and Civilization

John-Henry Clay, ‘Claiming the Wilderness in Late Roman Gaul’, JECS 30 (2022) 403-32. Abstract. To the educated classical mind, the cosmos was built on a dichotomy between order and chaos that permeated the physical and natural world. Wilderness was a…