The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris

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A multidisciplinary survey of Sidonius Apollinaris and his works First ever comprehensive research tool for Sidonius Apollinaris Assembles 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 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. 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 A Prosopography of Sidonius Sidonius’ Places: A Geographical Appendix 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 A Census of the Manuscripts 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 Topics