Alison John’s Learning and Power in Late Antique Gaul is published. It is available for purchase here.
Tag: Gaul
Oppedisano in Paris
At the invitation of the EHESS, Fabrizio Oppedisano (SNS Pisa) is to give four lectures in Paris, in October and November, on Late Antiquity and the Early Middle-Ages. Two bear on fifth-century Gaul: ‘L’empereur Majorien à Lyon: la vision “poétique” de Sidoine Apollinaire’ and ‘Les Burgondes et les équilibres incertains de la Gaul romaine au milieu de Ve siècle après J.-C.’.
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Szada on Nicene-Homoian Relations
Marta Szada’s book Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity (Cambridge, 2024) contains a chapter on ‘The Religious Controversies in Gaul and Hispania before the Goths’ (pp. 169-87).
This chapter analyses how the re-emergence of Homoianism among the Visigoths, Vandals, and Suevi was interpreted in the Nicene church in Gaul and Spain and what this reception reveals about Nicene–Homoian relations in the region in the fifth century. It also examines the evidence for the development of the Homoian Church and the increase in the number of Homoians.
Tags include Sidonius Apollinaris.
Link to the item in CUP’s catalogue.
Urlacher-Becht on Gaul, Italy and Ep. 1.5
Céline Urlacher-Becht published the article ‘“Gaule” et “Italie” dans les épîtres de la fin Ve-début VIe siècle: stratégies littéraires et enjeux identitaires’ in Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa s. 5, 15/2 (2023) 309-53. Pages 312-19 bear on Ep. 1.5.
Here goes to the open access publication.
Reception of Apuleius in Fifth-Century Gaul
The University of Bari is hiring a post-doctoral researcher for the project ‘Tradition and reception of Apuleius’ works in fifth-century Gaul’, with particular attention to Sidonius.
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‘During the research period, the postdoctoral fellow will be required to trace an articulate picture of the reception and transmission of Apuleius’ texts in fifth-century Gaul. In particular, the research will concern the mentions of Apuleius and his literary output throughout the corpus of Sidonius Apollinaris. Although there is a consensus that he was read and appreciated by Apollinaris and his learned friends (notably Claudianus Mamertus), it is only through an exegesis of Sidonius’ Carmina and Letters that it will be possible to shed light on the linguistic and stylistic reception of Apuleius in the works of Sidonius and his literary circle of friends.’
Languages in the Western Provinces
Alex Mullen and George Woudhuysen have edited a collaborative volume titled Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces (Oxford, 2023).
It is in open access here.
Rodríguez García on Episcopal Correspondence
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.
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Contacts Between Italy and Gaul, 5th-6th Cent.
Pierfrancesco Porena, among others, is to speak about ‘Simmaco, Sidonio Apollinare e la gloriosa genealogia dei Syagrii di Lione’
Sara Fascione and the ‘Others’ in Power
Sara Fascione has come up with the publication of her PhD thesis entitled: Gli ‘altri’ al potere: Romani e barbari nella Gallia di Sidonio Apollinare.
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Tabea Meurer on Negotiating the Past
Tabea Meurer has published her Münster PhD thesis Vergangenes verhandeln: Spätantike Statusdiskurse senatorischer Eliten in Gallien und Italien / Negotiating the Past: Late Ancient Discourse on Status among the Senatorial Elites of Gaul and Italy.
See publisher’s catalogue. Table of contents on Academia.
“This study in cultural history addresses the value of past relations in Gallo-Roman and Italian discourses on social status in late antiquity. The volume examines how senatorial figures referred back to ancestors and ancient times to better position themselves in relation to their peers. At a broader level, it describes the negotiative processes surrounding the establishment of rank.”