Szada on Nicene-Homoian Relations

Marta Szada’s book Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity (Cambridge, 2024) contains a chapter on ‘The Religious Controversies in Gaul and Hispania before the Goths’ (pp. 169-87). This chapter analyses how the re-emergence of Homoianism among…

Giannotti on a mundus senescens

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…

Serrano Madroñal on Frederic

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. Read on Academia

Marolla on Political Flexibility

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…

Exposition Wisigoths: Rois de Toulouse

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,…

Visigothic Kingdom 419-2019

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.