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Alison John’s Learning and Power in Late Antique Gaul is published. It is available for purchase here.

Alison John’s Learning and Power in Late Antique Gaul is published. It is available for purchase here.

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”…

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…

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.…

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. Advertisement here. Applications before 23 March 2024. ‘During the research period, the postdoctoral fellow…

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.

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.…

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. See publisher’s catalogue

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…

Joop van Waarden has contributed the article Gaul to the new Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online as well as the following lemmata: Apollinaris of Valence Auspicius of Toul Eucherius of Lyon Honoratus Antoninus Marcian Merobaudes Paulinus of Pella