2021

Ando, Clifford, and Marco Formisano (eds), The New Late Antiquity: A Gallery of Intellectual Portraits,, Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Neue Folge, 2. Reihe, Volume 162, Heidelberg: Winter, 2021.

Babnis, Tomasz, ‘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 of a diplomatic journey to Persia in the poetry of Late Antiquity], Collectanea Philologica 24 (2021) 111-25.

Becher, Matthias, and Hendrik Hess (eds), Kontingenzerfahrungen und ihre Bewältigung zwischen imperium und regna. Beispiele aus Gallien und angrenzenden Gebieten vom 5. bis zum 8. Jahrhundert, Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2021.

Bruzzone, Antonella, Alessandro Fo and Luigi Piacente (eds), Metamorfosi del Classico in età romanobarbarica, Nuova biblioteca di cultura romanobarbarica 2, Florence: Sismel–Galluzzo, 2021.

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  • review: Marco Onorato in BSL 53 (2023) 344-46.

Cavuoto-Denis, Nicolas, ‘L’escargot, l’oie, le castor… La place des animaux chez quelques auteurs latins tardifs’, in: Philippe Guisard, Christelle Laizé and Antoine Contenso (eds), Cultures antiques. L’homme et l’animal. Programme ENS 2022, Paris: Ellipses, 545-53.

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  • info: Mainly about Macrobius and Symmachus, but mentions Sidon. Ep. 4.17.2, 4.22.6, 5.5.2

Condorelli, Silvia, ‘Sulle perdute Declamationes di San Remigio: Sidon. ep. 9.7’, in: Manca and Venuti 2021, 295-309.

Crogiez-Pétrequin, Sylvie, ‘Les bénéficiaires du cursus publicus: des privilégiés?’, Revue historique 698 (2021) 447-62.

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  • info: Pp. 453-54 on Sidonius’ voyage to Rome in 467

Danza, Juan Manuel, ‘La Psychomachia de Prudencio: un artefacto inspirado’, Circe 25 (2021) 141-59.

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  • info: Pp. 153-55 ‘Estrategias poéticas tardoantiguas: Prudencio y Sidonio’, comparing the negative metapoetics of Sidonius’ Ad Catullinum

Decourt, Jean-Claude, and Gérard Lucas, Lyon dans les textes grecs et latins: La géographie et l’histoire de Lugdunum, de la fondation de la colonie à l’occupation burgonde (43 avant - 460 après J.-C.), new enlarged edition, Lyon: MOM Éditions, 2021, online DOI doi.org/10.4000/books.momeditions.11355 [accessed 1 April 2024].

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  • info: Sidonius paras 398-424: fragm. 105 Les brouillards de Lyon (Ep. 1.8.1-2), 106 À Majorien, pour le relèvement de Lyon (Carm. 5.571-86), 107 À Majorien, demande d’exemption d’impôt (Carm. 13.19-25), 108 Dédicace de la cathédrale de Lyon (Ep. 2.10.2-4, 9.3.5), 109 Réunion mondaine à Saint-Just (Ep. 5.17.3-6), 110 Les murailles de Lyon (Ep. 1.5.2)

Egetenmeyr, Veronika, ‘Sidonius Apollinaris’s Use of the Term Barbarus: An Introduction’, in: Matthias Friedrich and James M. Harland (eds), Interrogating the ‘Germanic’: A Category and its Use in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Supplement to Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 123, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021, 145-66.

Egetenmeyr, Veronika, ‘Kontingenz und die Konstruktion des “Anderen”: Die Darstellung von “Barbaren” als Ausdruck von Kontingenzbewältigung’, in: Becher and Hess 2021, 121-54.

Flierman, Robert, ‘Gregory of Tours and the Merovingian Letter’, Journal of Medieval History, online 25.02.2021.

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  • info: Has much to say about types of letters, letter delivery, couriers and messengers, and secret communication

Formisano, Marco, ‘The King Listens: Origins, Noises, and Panegyric in Sidonius Apollinaris’ Carmen 1’, Arethusa 54 (2021) 275-90.

Giannotti, Filomena, ‘Pronus prope o prope patruum? Nota sul Propempticon ad libellum di Sidonio Apollinare (carm. 24,84-89)’, BSL 51 (2021) 169-77 (included in Giannotti, Scrinia Arverna, 2021, 31-40).

Giannotti, Filomena, ‘Je suis le miroir à la fin de la décadence: Mirror-Games Between Sidonius Apollinaris and Jean Marcel’, ClassicoContemporaneo 7 (2021) 146-56 (translated and expanded in Giannotti, Scrinia Arverna, 2021, 185-92).

Giannotti, Filomena, ‘Levigata pagina. Riconsiderando l’epitaffio di Sidonio per il nonno Apollinare (ep. 3,12)’, Invigilata Lucernis 43 (2021) 7-22 (included in Giannotti, Scrinia Arverna, 2021, 41-57).

Giannotti, Filomena, Scrinia Arverna: Studi su Sidonio Apollinare, Studi e testi di storia antica 29, Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2021.

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  • info: Ch. 1 ‘Affinità uditive’ (Carm. 24), first publ.; 2 Pronus prope o prope patruum? (Carm. 24.84-89), repr. BSL 2021; 3 Levigata pagina (Carm. 28 in Ep. 3.12), repr. Invig. Luc. 2021; 4 Mens et gloria non queunt humari (Ep. 4.4.3, 4.19 and 4.11), rev. Invig. Luc. 2001; 5 Litteras nosse (Ep. 8.2), repr. Pan 2020; 6 Vivet in posterum nominis tui gloria (Ep. 8.5), repr. Maia 2020; 7 Notizie da un mundus senescens (Ep. 8.6), first publ.; 8 ‘Il y a un revival de Sidoine’ (reception 19th and 20th cent.), rev. Companion ch. 24, 2020; 9 Je suis le miroir à la fin de la décadence (reception Jean Marcel), rev. ClassicoContemporaneo 2021.
  • reviews: Joop van Waarden in CR 73 (2023) 159-61; Daniele Di Rienzo in BSL 52 (2022) 788-93; Francesco Montone in Vichiana 60 (2023) 87-92; Silvia Condorelli in Athenaeum 112 (2024).

Gusso, Massimo, ‘Sidonius Apollinaris and the “Senate in Exile”: On a “Republican” Poetic Metaphor’, Lexis 39.1 (June 2021).

Gwynn, David, ‘Sidonius Apollinaris’, in: Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, update, 2021.

Hanaghan, Michael, ‘Sidonius Apollinaris contra Claudianus Mamertus: Jerome, Julianus Pomerius, and the Subversion of Praise’, Journal of Early Christian Studies 29 (2021) 215-35.

Hess, Hendrik, ‘Gallien zwischen imperium und regna. Kontingenzdarstellung und -bewältigung in den Briefsammlungen des Sidonius Apollinaris, des Ruricius von Limoges und des Avitus von Vienne’, in: Becher and Hess, 2021, 155-99.

Kalas, Gregor, ‘Portraits of Poets and the Lecture Halls in the Forum of Trajan: Masking Cultural Tensions in Late Antique Rome’, in: Gregor Kalas and Ann van Dijk (eds), Urban Developments in Late Antique and Medieval Rome: Revising the Narrative of Renewal, Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021, 75-108.

Kelly, Gavin, ‘A Textual and Onomastic Problem in Sidonius’, blogpost Ausonius 29 Oct. 2021.

  • info: Was the addressee of Ep. 2.4 Sagittarius or Syagrius?

Kelly, Gavin, ‘Titles and Paratexts in the Collection of Sidonius’ Poems’, in: Bruzzone et al. 2021, 77-97.

Liccardo, Salvatore, ‘Identical Strangers: The History of the Heruli Between the 3rd and the 5th Century’, blogpost Historical Identity, ÖAW, 12 Oct. 2021.

Manca, Massimo, and Martina Venuti (eds), Paulo maiora canamus. Raccolta di studi per Paolo Mastandrea, Antichistica 32.5, Venice: Ca’ Foscari, 2021.

Marcone, Arnaldo, L’ultimo anno dell’Impero: Roma, 476 d.C., Naples: Salerno, 2021.

Marolla, Giulia, ‘Sidonius Apollinaris, Letters Book 5 (Epp. 1-10): Text, Translation, and Commentary’, PhD San Marino, 2021 [unpubl.]

Marolla, Giulia, ‘Sidonio Apollinare e il concetto di satira nella tarda antichità’, Invigilata Lucernis 43 (2021) 129-44.

Marrón, Gabriela Andrea, ‘De-cadencias y traspiés. Estrategias intertexuales en la Antigüedad Tardía’, Circe 25 (2021) 161-81.

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  • info: Pp. 176-77 interpret the metrical ‘licence’ Orphéüm in Sidonius’ Carm. 35.19 (in Ep. 8.11.3) as intentional, in connection with a similar case in Dracontius

Mascoli, Patrizia, Sidonio Apollinare. Epistolario. Introduzione, traduzione e note, Testi patristici, Rome: Città Nuova, 2021.

Montone, Francesco, ‘Sidonio Apollinare e i suoi modelli: un mosaico letterario e le conquiste orientali di Roma’, Parole Rubate 23 (2021) 207-22.

Neri, Valerio, ‘Representation and aesthetic evaluation of the barbarian body in Late ancient literature’, keynote Maynooth University ‘Reading Beauty in Late Antiquity’, 26 November 2021.

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  • info: Sidonius on Theodoric on pp. 2-3

Ripart, Laurent, Les déserts de l’Occident. Genèse des lieux monastiques dans le sud-est de la Gaule (fin IVe – milieu VIe siècle), Collection d’études médiévales de Nice 18, Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.

Ripart, Laurent, ‘Le désert des moines latins’, AnTard 29 (2021) 149-57.

Salzman, Michele Renee, The ‘Falls’ of Rome: Crises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity, Cambridge: CUP, 2021.

Santelia, Stefania, ‘Sidonio Apollinare, carme 9: un griphus per il lector?’, in: Manca and Venuti 2021, 255-66.

Stoehr-Monjou, Annick, ‘Enjeux mémoriels d’un récit de voyage de Lyon à Rome: Sidoine Apollinaire (Lettre 1, 5)’, in: Fabien Galtier (ed.), Voyage et mémoire: Les écrits latins sur le voyage et leurs enjeux mémoriels, Viatica, HS 4, June 2021.

van Waarden, Joop, ‘Das Sidonius- und das Kontingenz-Projekt im Spiegel der Theorie’, in: Becher and Hess, 2021, 29-49.

van Waarden, Joop, ‘Symmachus and the Metamorphosis of “You and I” in Epistolary Usage’, in: Bruzzone et al. 2021, 145-61.

  • info: One of a series of three articles covering the interactive use of the first and second persons singular and plural in epistolography. The central part of this series is chapter 13 in the Sidonius Companion: ‘“You” and “I” in Sidonius’ Correspondence’ (pp. 418-39). The third part is ‘A Gentleman Weighs His “You” and “I”: Inclusion in the Letters of Faustus, Mamertus Claudianus, Ruricius, Avitus and Ennodius’, in Egetenmeyr and Meurer 2023, 91-115

Vitiello, Massimiliano, ‘The “Fear” of the Barbarians and the Fifth-Century Western Chroniclers’, MAAR 66 (2021) 115-50.

Wagner, Hendrik A., Das spätantike Rom und die stadtrömische Senatsaristokratie (395–455 n. Chr.). Eine althistorisch-archäologische Untersuchung, Millennium Studies 91, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.

Wolff, Étienne, ‘Quelques remarques sur la lettre, V, 14 de Sidoine Apollinaire et les rogations’, in: Mathilde Simon and Étienne Wolff (eds), Operae pretium facimus. Mélanges en l’honneur de Charles Guittard, Collection Kubaba. Série antiquité, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2021, 759-65.

Wood, Ian, ‘The Making of “the Burgundian Kingdom”’, Reti Medievali 22 (2021) 1-31.

Zingg, Roland, ‘Kontingenz(bewältigung) und neue politische Ordnung im Burgunderreich’, in: Becher and Hess, 2021, 201-18.

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