Your Research Companion
Your Research Companion
Chiara Di Serio and Margot Neger (neger.margot AT ucy.ac.cy) have organised an international conference on ‘Letters and Authority: The Epistolary Communication of Rulers and Religious Leaders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages’. Date: 29-30 May 2026. Venue: University of Cyprus,…
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…
Joop van Waarden’s ‘Green & Yellow’ Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters is published. There is a 20% discount on this title expiring 31 March, code JOOP2026. For more information, and to order visit the Cambridge catalogue, entering the code at checkout. Download…
Hope Williard (Utrecht University) wrote ‘Letter Carriers and the Scale of Communication in the Epistolae of Sidonius Apollinaris’ for Kristina Sessa and Kevin Uhalde (eds), Scale and the Study of Late Antiquity, Munera 53, Bari: Edipuglia, 2023, 153-67. Catalogue volume…
Àngel Rodríguez García writes on ‘Episcopal Correspondence in Fifth-Century Gaul: Leadership in Times of Crisis’, centered on Sidonius, in an edited volume (Not) All Roads Lead to Rome: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Mobility in the Ancient World (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023), 168–178.…
Authors, Addressees, and Audiences in Roman Letters University of Edinburgh Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building Monday, 20th February 2023 This conference focuses on Roman letters from Cicero to Sidonius, and on the relationship of author, addressee, and audience. Each…
On 25 and 26 November, an international colloquium will be held of early career researchers in ancient epistolography, organised by the Universities of Bari and Durham: ‘Writing Letters in the Ancient World: Fictional and Real Letters from the First Century…
International Conference “Concatenantur sibi epistulae nostrae. Reading Ancient Latin Letter Collections” Date: 23-24 September 2021 Place: University Federico II, Naples, via Zoom Organisation: Sara Fascione The event is supported by the German Research Foundation within the Programme International Scientific Events…
The harmony of parts skillfully put together, concinnitas in Ausonius and Sidonius Apollinaris, is the subject of Marco Onorato’s latest article in Étienne Wolff (ed.), La réception d’Ausone dans les littératures européennes. See Bibliography 2019.
Camille Bonnan-Garçon (Lyon) writes about Sidonius’ favourable image of Theodoric and about the changing roles of letters and panegyrics for praising monarchs in Interférences 11, 2018. She has just finished her doctoral dissertation: ‘L’épigramme et la lettre d’Ausone à Ennode…
