Raúl Serrano Madroñal (Madrid) has written on Theoderic II’s brother Frederic: ‘Frederico: un miembro de la dinastía visigoda de los Baltingos / Fredericus: A Member of the Visigothic Balt Dynasty’, Habis 51 (2020) 245-61.
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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.
The Saint-Raymond museum in Toulouse this year presents an exposition “Wisigoths: Rois de Toulouse“.
It is accompanied by a virtual 360° visit online.
The museum has also published a catalogue: Laure Barthet and Claudine Jacquet (eds), Wisigoths: Rois de Toulouse, where, on pp. 116-20 Jean-Marie Pailler, Jean-Luc Boudartchouk and Patrice Montzamir discuss Sidonius and his (or his son’s?) epitaph in both its versions.
One can argue about dates and periods, but there is nothing like a good anniversary – for instance, in Toulouse. So here goes the 1.600th anniversary of the foundation of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toulouse. Read on.