The Jeweled Style Revisited

Now out in e-book: Joshua Hartman and Helen Kaufmann (eds), A Late Antique Poetics? The Jeweled Style Revisited, Bloomsbury Academic (hardback available 13 July). ‘The poetry of the late Roman world has a fascinating history. Sometimes an object of derision,…

Kaufmann on Carm. 41 and Autobiography

Helen Kaufmann, ‘Identity in Latin Verse Autobiography’, in: L. Roig Lanzillotta, J.L. Brandão, C. Teixeira and Á. Rodrigues (eds), Roman Identity: Between Ideal and Performance, ASH 8, Turnhout: Brepols, 2022, 71–90, includes Sidonius Carm. 41 (Ep. 9.16.3) in her discussion…

The Jeweled Style Revisited

We are delighted to announce the conference ‘The Jeweled Style Revisited’, which aims at developing, extending, celebrating and refining (aspects of) the concept first described by Michael Roberts in his seminal study The Jeweled Style (1989). The conference is going…