Van Waarden Reviews Ungvary

Joop van Waarden has written a review of David Ungvary, Converting Verse: The Poetics of Asceticism in Late Roman Gaul (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity), Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024 just published in Vigiliae Christianae. Advance publication on Brill’s website

Condorelli on Sidonius and Paulinus

Silvia Condorelli contributed ‘Sidonio Apollinare e Paolino di Périgueux: consonanze poetiche’ to Sara Fascione’s 2024 edited volume Tradizione e nuovi auctores della tarda antichità, Concordia Discors 1, Naples: Guida Editori, on pp. 149-74.

The City Cast in Poetry

‘Mettre la ville en poésie dans l’Antiquité tardive’ is the title of an online workshop on 18 June 2025, organised by Florence Garambois-Vasquez (University of Saint-Etienne) and Gaëlle Herbert de la Portbarré-Viard (University of Aix-Marseille). Abstracts are awaited by 30…

Jeweled Materiality of Objects and Texts

Call for Papers. Deadline 30 April 2024 The Jeweled Materiality of Late Antique/Early Medieval Objects and Texts From Cloisonné to Stained Glass to Experimental Poetry (4th–9th Centuries) International conference, November 11–12, 2024 Center for Early Medieval Studies, Masaryk University, Brno…

Babnis on Diplomacy in Persia

Tomasz Babnis writes on Roman embassies to Persia, comparing passages in Claudian and Sidonius: ‘Idem aliter, czyli o dwóch opisach dyplomatycznej podróży do Persji w poezji późnego antyku (Claud. Cons. Stil. I 51–68; Sid. Carm. II 75–88)’ [… two descriptions…

Stoehr-Monjou ‘How to Conclude?’

Annick Stoehr-Monjou, ‘How to conclude? A poetics of contrast and paradox in Book 9 and especially in Epist. 9,13-16 by Sidonius Apollinaris’, is a paper given at the International conference and workshop ‘The Stumbling Texts (and Stumbling Readers) of Late…

Stumbling Texts to Start

Lector, quas patieris hic salebras! The Stumbling Texts (and Stumbling Readers) of Late Latin Poetry Basel, 30th Sept. – 2nd Oct. 2021, organised by Ann-Kathrin Stähle, Markus Kersten, Christian Guerra, Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer Further information can be found here: Those…

Onorato on concinnitas

The harmony of parts skillfully put together, concinnitas in Ausonius and Sidonius Apollinaris, is the subject of Marco Onorato’s latest article in Étienne Wolff (ed.), La réception d’Ausone dans les littératures européennes. See Bibliography 2019.

Doctorate Lucie Desbrosses

Lucie Desbrosses has got her doctorate at the University of Besançon (supervisor Stéphane Ratti). The title of her thesis is: ‘Sidoine Apollinaire et la Gaule chrétienne au Ve siècle’. Abstract: ‘This dissertation investigates how Sidonius Apollinaris’ poetry and letters shed…