The Letters of Sidonius
Author : Saint Sidonius Apollinaris
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Bishops
ISBN :
The letters of Sidonius
Author : Gaius Sollius Modestus Apollinaris Sidonius
Publisher :
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Bishops
ISBN :
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New Approaches to Sidonius Apollinaris
Author : Gavin Kelly
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Gaul
ISBN : 9789042929289
Book Description
Sidonius Apollinaris is a central figure in the literature and history of fifth-century Gaul. But he still awaits sustained debate in modem scholarship. This integrated and international collection of essays explores the potential for a complete commentary on his works, starting with a retrospective on Sidonius scholarship up to the present, and then focusing in turn on his verse and his prose. The strangeness of his poetry triggers a critical contemporary assessment and a proposal for better understanding through the theory of Cultural Memory; there follow case studies of the panegyrics and of poems within the letters, and examinations of his intertextuality with Horace and Claudian. Research into Sidonius' prose is represented by two contrasting essays on the composition of the letter collection, by a demonstration of how Sidonius constructs history to create contemporary identity, and by a groundbreaking chapter applying text linguistics to the letters. An appendix fills a significant scholarly lacuna with Helga Kohler's indices to her commentary on Letters, Book 1 (Heidelberg, 1995). The present volume will be important for both literary and historical scholars of the late Roman world, for both Classicists and Medievalists. Book jacket.
Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris
Author : Kelly Gavin Kelly
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 2020-03-18
Category :
ISBN : 1474461700
Book Description
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.
The Letters of Sidonius
Author : Saint Sidonius Apollinaris
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Bishops
ISBN :
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Sidonius Apollinaris and the Fall of Rome, AD 407-485
Author : Jill Harries
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
The fifth century AD was a period of military turmoil and political upheaval in Western Europe. The career of the Gallo-Roman senator and bishop, Sidonius Apollinaris (c. 430-c. 485), holder of government office under three Roman emperors and later bishop of Clermont Ferrand, vividly illustrates the processes which undermined Roman rule. A champion of Latin letters and Roman aristocratic values, Sidonius was also for most of his career an advocate of co-operation with the Goths of Aquitaine. Both a career politician and an ardent Christian, Sidonius in his writings reveals both the confusion of loyalties afflicting an aristocracy under threat and the compromises necessary for survival. This book, the first in English on its subject for sixty years, argues that Sidonius adapted literary conventions and exploited accepted techniques of allusion to explain his dilemmas, justify his own role, and convey his personal understanding of, and response to, the fall of Rome.
Roman Letters
Author : Matthew B. Schwartz
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1725240076
Book Description
In this selection of letters, notable Romans write about themselves and their times, as well as about personal and public matters. Seneca provides indignant remarks about the behavior of women in Nero's Rome. From his monastic cell in Bethlehem, St. Jerome berates St. Augustine for gossip he may have spread. Some letters give a different perspective to history, while other talk of harvests, marriages, and day-to-day events. For historical continuity, Hooper and Schwartz include a running commentary and brief biographical sketches on the writers.
Late Antique Letter Collections
Author : Cristiana Sogno
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520308417
Book Description
Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300–600 c.e.). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary letters, introducing the social and textual histories of each collection and examining its assembly, publication, and transmission. Contributions also reveal how collections operated as discrete literary genres, with their own conventions and self-presentational agendas. This book will fundamentally change how people both read these texts and use letters to reconstruct the social history of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries.
The Letters of St. Cyprian of Carthage
Author : Cyprianus
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Bishops
ISBN : 9780809103690
Book Description
The letters in this volume cover the period from mid-251 to 254, and reveal details of the persecution under Gallus, and the African Council meetings over the years 251-253.
Just My Type
Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1847652921
Book Description
Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook, or Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. As the Sunday Times review put it, the book is 'a kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves for letters, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.' This edition is available with both black and silver covers.
