Two Upcoming Papers

Laurent Ripart, ‘The bipolar organisation of early Lerinian monasticism’, at the Ewa Wipszycka Warsaw Late Antique Seminar, 3 October. Giulia Marolla, ‘”Artigli di sfinge” e “spire di serpente”. Due casi di vituperatio nell’epistolario di Sidonio Apollinare’, at the Giornate di…

Clay on Wilderness and Civilization

John-Henry Clay, ‘Claiming the Wilderness in Late Roman Gaul’, JECS 30 (2022) 403-32. Abstract. To the educated classical mind, the cosmos was built on a dichotomy between order and chaos that permeated the physical and natural world. Wilderness was a…

The Deserts of the West

Laurent Ripart has written a comprehensive study of the earliest monasteries of South-Eastern Gaul including the islands along the coasts of Tuscany, Liguria (Gallinaria) and Provence (Lérins), in Arles, the Rhône valley, and the Jura (Agaune): Les déserts de l’Occident.…