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 Early Middle Ages, Das Mittelalter Supplements 18, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2022, 75-92.
Download here (open access)
The publication of Judith Hindermann’s Sidonius Apollinaris’ Letters, Book 2: Text, Translation and Commentary has been announced by Edinburgh University Press for September 2022. It is part of the new series ‘Edinburgh Studies in Later Latin Literature’.
Go here for the announcement.
Featured image: Department of Classical Studies, University of Basel.
Giulia Marolla has published ‘Il trasformismo dell’aristocrazia gallica nelle epistole di Sidonio Apollinare / Political Flexibility of the Gallic Aristocracy in Sidonius’ Letters’, eClassica 6 (2020) 59-71. Its motto is from the Gattopardo: Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga com’è, bisogna che tutto cambi.
At the Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Nicolas Goldmann is working on a PhD thesis, provisional title ‘Die Briefe des Sidonius Apollinaris als gesellschaftlich-literarische Gelegenheiten’, under the supervision of Prof. Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser and Prof. Meike Rühl.
Email nicolas.goldmann AT stud.uni-goettingen.de
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Étienne Wolff (Paris Nanterre) speaks on ‘Liberté de ton et plaisanterie dans la correspondance de Sidoine Apollinaire’
Sidonius’ famous motto “Well aware that one’s thoughts are exposed in a letter collection like a face in a mirror” guides Luciana Furbetta’s recently published article (going back to a 2014 conference) on the concept of a letter as a mirror of self in his correspondence.
See the website Bibliography, tab 2018.
Conference: Brief und Epigramm: Bezüge und Wechselwirkungen zwischen zwei Textsorten in Antike und Mittelalter
Judith Hindermann (Universität Basel)
Grabepigramm und Trauerbrief: Plinius der Jüngere, Ausonius und Sidonius Apollinaris
Margot Neger (Universität Salzburg)
Epigrammatische Einlagen in den Nachrufen auf Literaten bei Sidonius Apollinaris (Epist. 4.11 und 8.11)
Matthijs Zoeter has obtained his Master’s Degree cum laude at Radboud University, Nijmegen, with “Reading the Future, Writing the Present: A Literary and Interpretive Commentary on Sidonius Apollinaris Letter 8.11”. It can be downloaded from this website, page Contributions.
Sara Fascione, ‘The reception of Symmachus in Sidonius Apollinaris’ letters’
