Your Research Companion
Your Research Companion
On 23 February 2026, Radboud University will present the new commentary by Joop van Waarden on a selection of the letters of Sidonius. The work will appear in Cambridge University Press’s “Green and Yellow” series. The first copy will be presented…
Helga Köhler contributed chapter 38, Die Briefe des Sidonius Apollinaris (pp. 1092-1104), to Eve-Marie Becker, Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser and Alfons Fürst (eds), Handbuch Brief. Antike, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025.
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…
Luciana Furbetta, ‘L’écriture “en réseau”. Réflexions sur la fonction “socio-stylistique” de la correspondance de Sidoine Apollinaire’, Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Moyen Âge 135 (2023) 171-89. Here online
Willum Westenholz has reviewed Judith Hindermann’s commentary on Letters Book 2 in Plekos 21.06.2023. ‘… an excellent resource for undergraduates and newcomers to Sidonius, but is has less to offer to the specialist.’
Jennifer Budd (Macquarie University) concluded her research master with the thesis ‘Maerendo pauca: Lament in the Letters of Sidonius Apollinaris’, November 2022. Abstract and download here
Ágnes T. Horváth has published her translation into Hungarian of the Letters: Caius Sollius Modestus Sidonius Apollinaris levelei, Szeged: JGYF Kiadó, 2022. Item in publisher’s catalogue here. She provides the following explanation: The volume consists of two parts. The first…
Eleonora Recupero Porcino has received an innovation grant to create a digital so-called “linked open data” edition of Sidonius’ Letters as her PhD thesis, supervised by Holger Essler, Luca Mondin and Marco Onorato, at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in…
Joop van Waarden has published the second part of his series on ‘You and I’ in epistolary usage: ‘Symmachus and the Metamorphosis of “You and I” in Epistolary Usage’, in: Antonella Bruzzone, Alessandro Fo and Luigi Piacente (eds), Metamorfosi del…
Just out by Veronika Egetenmeyr: ‘Constructing Emotions and Creating Identities: Emotional Persuasion in the Letters of Sidonius Apollinaris and Ruricius of Limoges’, in: Mateusz Fafinski and Jakob Riemenschneider (eds), The Past Through Narratology: New Approaches to Late Antiquity and the…
