The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris

Edited by Gavin Kelly and Joop Van Waarden

Published by Edinburgh Universuty Press

  • First ever comprehensive research tool for Sidonius Apollinaris
  • Assembles the leading international specialists on Sidonius and his age
  • Offers an assessment of past and current research in the field
  • Comprehensive bibliography includes all the scholarly literature on Sidonius
  • Supplemented by the regularly updated Sidonius website www.sidonapol.org

Description

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 the 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 devided into six thematic sections covering his socail, 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Autor Biographies

Note

Map

Gavin Kelly and Joop van Waareden, Introduction to this volume

Part I SIDONIUS' LIFE, THE CHARACTERS IN HIS WORK, AND ITS DATING

1 Joop Van Waarden, Sidonius' Biography in Photo Negative

2 Ralph Mathisen, Sidonius' People

2.1 Sidonius' Peolpe: A Study

2.2 Sidonius' Peolpe:A Prosopography

2.3 Sidonius' Peolpe:A Geographical Appendix

3 Gavin Kelly, Dating the Works of Sidonius

Part II SIDONIUS IN HIS POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND RELIGIOUS CONTEXT

4 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 CONTEXT

8 Isabella Gualandri, Sidonius' Intertextuality

9 Franca Ela Consolino, Sidonius' Shorter Poems

11 Roy Gibson, Sidonius' Correspondence

Part IV SIDONIUS' LANGUAGE AND STYLE

12 Etienne Wolff, Sidonius' Vocabulary, Syntax, and Style

13 Joop van Waarden, 'You' and 'I' in Sidonius' Correspondence

14 Silvila Condorelli, Metries in Sidonius

15 Joop van Waarden and Gavin Kelly, Prose Rhythm in Sidonius

Part V THE MANUSCRIPT TRADITION AND THE HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP

16 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 Silvila Condorelli, Sidonius Scholarship: 20th-21st Centuries

19 Roger Green, Translating Sidonius

20 Ralph Mathisen, Sidonius' Earliest Reception and Distribution

21 Tina Chronopoulos, Glossing Sidonius in the Middle Ages

22 Jesus Herneindez 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

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEXES

Indes locorum

General index