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A multidisciplinary survey of Sidonius Apollinaris and his works
Sidonius Apollinaris, c.430 - c.485, poet and letter-writer, aristocrat, administrator and bishop, is one of the most distinct voices to survive from Late Antiquity and an eyewitness of the end of Roman power in the west.
The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris is the first work of its kind, giving a full account of all aspects of his life and works and surveying past and current scholarship as well as new developments in research.
This substantial and significant work of scholarship is divided into six thematic sections covering his social, political, linguistic, literary and prosopographical context as well as extensive new scholarship on the manuscript tradition and history of reception.
This interdisciplinary book combines the utility of a key research tool for the study of Sidonius with a significant offering of wholly new scholarly research.
Key features:
. First ever comprehensive research tool for Sidonius Apollinaris
. Assembles the leading international specialists on Sidonius and his age
. Offers an assessment of past and currernt research in the field
. Comprehensive bibliography includes all the scholarly literature on Sidonius
. Supplemented by the regularly updated Sidonius website www.sidonapol.org
Gavin Kelly is Professor of Latin Literature and Roman History at the University of Edinburgh. Joop van Waarden is Research Fellow in Latin at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Author Biographies
Note
Map
Gavin Kelly and Joop van Waarden, Introduction to the Volume
Part I SIDONIUS' LIFE, THE CHARACTERS IN HIS WORK, AND ITS DATING1 Joop van Waarden, Sidonius' Biography in Photo Negative
2 Ralph Mathisen, Sidonius' People
2.1 Sidonius' People: A Study
2.2 Sidonius' People: A Prosopography
2.3 Sidonius' Places: A Geographical Appendix
3 Gavin Kelly, Dating the Works of Sidonius
Part II SIDONIUS IN HIS POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND RELIGIOUS CONTEXT4 Michael Kulikowski, Sidonius' Political World
5 Sigrid Mratschek, Sidonius' Social World
6 Sigrid Mratschek, Creating Culture and Presenting the Self in Sidonius
7 Lisa Bailey, Sidonius and Religion
Part III SIDONIUS' WORK AND ITS LITERARY CONTEXT8 Isabella Gualandri, Sidonius' Intertextuality
9 Annick Stoehr-Monjou, Sidonius' Panegyrics
10 Franca Ela Consolino, Sidonius' Shorter Poems
11 Roy Gibson, Sidonius' Correspondence
Part IV SIDONIUS' LANGUAGE AND STYLE12 Étienne Wolff, Sidonius' Vocabulary, Syntax, and Style
13 Joop van Waarden, 'You' and 'I' in Sidonius' Correspondence
14 Silvia Condorelli, Metrics in Sidonius
15 Joop van Waarden and Gavin Kelly, Prose Rhythm in Sidonius
Part V THE MANUSCRIPT TRADITION AND THE HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP16 Franz Dolveck, The Manuscript Tradition of Sidonius
16.1 The Manuscript Tradition of Sidonius: A Study
16.2 The Manuscript Tradition of Sidonius: A Census
17 Luciana Furbetta, Sidonius Scholarship: 15th-19th Centuries
18 Silvia Condorelli, Sidonius Scholarship: 20th-21st Centuries
19 Roger Green, Translating Sidonius
Part VI READERS OF SIDONIUS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT20 Ralph Mathisen, Sidonius' Earliest Reception and Distribution
21 Tina Chronopoulos, Glossing Sidonius in the Middle Ages
22 Jesús Hernández Lobato, Sidonius in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
23 Joop van Waarden, Sidonius Reception: 16th-19th Centuries
24 Filomena Giannotti, Sidonius Reception: Late 19th-21st Centuries
Gavin Kelly and Joop van Waarden, Epilogue: Future Approaches to Sidonius
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Index locorum
General index
