Sidonius in Roman Letters

Sidonius’ correspondence is among the odd 8,000 letters contained in the new online AI-powered ‘Roman Letters’ database. ‘Roman Letters grows out of a simple observation in Patrick Wyman’s 2016 USC dissertation, Letters, Mobility, and the Fall of the Roman Empire: the…

Litovchenko on Epistolary Communication

Elena Litovchenko published ‘”In the arms of letters”: textual mechanisms of communication in late antique epistolary networks’ [in Russian with English abstract] in Research Result. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 9 (2023) 159-77. Online access here

The Latest on Late Epistolography

Edited by Gernot Michael Müller, a multi-author volume on Latin epistolography in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages has come out: Zwischen Alltagskommunikation und literarischer Identitätsbildung. Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser contributes a chapter on Sidonius: ‘Vom Epulonenschmaus zum Fest der Worte’.…