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Format: 1 online resource (856 p.) : , 4 B/W illustrations

ISBN: 9781474461702

Content: A multidisciplinary survey of Sidonius Apollinaris and his worksFirst ever comprehensive research tool for Sidonius ApollinarisAssembles leading international specialists on Sidonius and his ageOffers an assessment of past and currernt research in the fieldComprehensive bibliography includes all the scholarly literature on SidoniusSupplemented by the regularly updated Sidonius website www.sidonapol.orgSidonius 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."

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- , AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES -- , NOTE -- , ABBREVIATIONS FOR BOOKS, SERIES, AND REFERENCE WORKS -- , MAP OF SIDONIUS’ GAUL C. 380–C. 480 -- , INTRODUCTION -- , Part I Sidonius’ Life, the Characters in his Work, and its Dating -- , 1 SIDONIUS’ BIOGRAPHY IN PHOTO NEGATIVE -- , 2 SIDONIUS’ PEOPLE -- , 3 DATING THE WORKS OF SIDONIUS -- , Part II Sidonius in his Political, Social, and Religious Context -- , 4 SIDONIUS’ POLITICAL WORLD -- , 5 SIDONIUS’ SOCIAL WORLD -- , 6 CREATING CULTURE AND PRESENTING THE SELF IN SIDONIUS -- , 7 SIDONIUS AND RELIGION -- , Part III Sidonius’ Work in its Literary Context -- , 8 SIDONIUS’ INTERTEXTUALITY -- , 9 SIDONIUS’ PANEGYRICS -- , 10 SIDONIUS’ SHORTER POEMS -- , 11 SIDONIUS’ CORRESPONDENCE -- , Part IV Sidonius’ Language and Style -- , 12 SIDONIUS’ VOCABULARY, SYNTAX, AND STYLE -- , 13 ‘YOU’ AND ‘I’ IN SIDONIUS’ CORRESPONDENCE -- , 14 Metrics in Sidonius -- , 15 Prose Rhythm in Sidonius -- , Part V The Manuscript Tradition and the History of Scholarship -- , 16 THE MANUSCRIPT TRADITION OF SIDONIUS -- , 17 SIDONIUS SCHOLARSHIP: FIFTEENTH TO NINETEENTH CENTURIES -- , 18 SIDONIUS SCHOLARSHIP: TWENTIETH TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES -- , 19 TRANSLATING SIDONIUS -- , Part VI Readers of Sidonius from Antiquity to the Present -- , 20 SIDONIUS’ EARLIEST RECEPTION AND DISTRIBUTION -- , 21 GLOSSING SIDONIUS IN THE MIDDLE AGES -- , 22 SIDONIUS IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE -- , 23 SIDONIUS RECEPTION: SIXTEENTH TO NINETEENTH CENTURIES -- , 24 SIDONIUS RECEPTION: LATE NINETEENTH TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES -- , EPILOGUE: FUTURE APPROACHES TO SIDONIUS -- , BIBLIOGRAPHY -- , Index locorum -- , Geographical Index -- , Index of Personal Names (Antiquity) -- , Index of Personal Names (After Antiquity) -- , Index of Personal Names (After Antiquity) , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781474461702

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474461702

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474461702

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474461702

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474461702