Ungvary on the Poetics of Asceticism

David Ungvary wrote Converting Verse: The Poetics of Asceticism in Late Roman Gaul, Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity, Oxford: OUP, 2024. See item in catalogue here Has a chapter on Sidonius: ‘Announcing Renunciation: Sidonius Apollinaris and Poetic Disavowal’. The blurb…

Stähle on Rupture in the Carmina

Ann-Kathrin Stähle got her doctorate at the University of Basel (2022, summa cum laude, supervisor Prof. Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer): ‘…quid poema frangat? Zur Poetik des Bruchs in den Carmina des Sidonius Apollinaris’.

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,…

Davis on Rurality and Romanitas

Ben Davis (University of California, Los Angeles) is to speak on “Rurality and Romanitas: Sidonius Apollinaris and the Poetics of Landscape in Late Antique Gaul” at the 51st Annual Meeting of CAPN (Willamette University, Salem). Date/time: Saturday 19 March, 10:15…