Now available: Filomena Giannotti, ‘News from a mundus senescens: Romans, Visigoths and Saxons in a Letter by Sidonius Apollinaris (8.6)’, in: José Luís Brandão, Cláudia Teixeira and Ália Rodrigues (eds), Confronting Identities in the Roman Empire: Assumptions about the Other in Literary Evidence, London: Bloomsbury, 2023, 213-36.
Can be read online in open access. Hardback forthcoming 14 December 2023.
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.
