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Title

Writing to survive : a commentary on Sidonius Apollinaris, Letters, Book 7 / by Johannes A. van Waarden.

Author

Waarden, J. A. van (Joop A. van)

Publication

Leuven ; Walpole, MA : Peeters, 2010-<2016>

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Additional Authors

Sidonius Apollinaris, Saint, 431 or 432-approximately 487.

Description

v. <1-2>; 25 cm.

Summary

• Volume 1: "A key figure in late antique Gaul, Sidonius Apollinaris - aristocrat, administrator, poet, letter-writer, and bishop - is still insufficiently understood. This study aims to contribute to an up-to-date appreciation, both by incorporating recent research and by breaking new ground. It is a philological and historical commentary with many of the qualities of a monograph. Focusing on eleven letters written by Sidonius to his fellow bishops, one of which contains the only surviving example of Sidonius' prose oratory, it fills an important gap in the critical coverage of his literary production. A lengthy introduction situates the letters within Sidonius' life and works, the politics of the last years of the Roman empire in the west, and the traditions of late antique epistolography. Use is made throughout of modern research in linguistics, and a fresh hypothesis on the rendering of 'you' and 'I' in Sidonius' correspondence is proposed. The book offers a reappraisal of late antique stylistic 'mannerism' as 'community art' which gives preference to the socially unifying function of art over its individual creative potential. This is a work which will be of interest to classicists and medievalists, to literary scholars and church historians, to those concerned with philological and historical intricacies and those interested in the broader development of literature and mentalities in Late Antiquity."--
• Volume 2: "Asceticism, and the antidote it offers to contemporary secular disappointments in fifth-century Gaul, is the central theme in the second part of Book 7 of Sidonius Apollinaris' correspondence. Addressing a state of ferment in which the closely-knit Gallo-Roman elite is shifting its moral and religious parameters along with its political certainties, these letters only reveal their full significance - this commentary claims - when read as ascetic documents mirroring the mentality of the monks of Lérins. This second volume of Writing to Survive follows the first (LAHR 2) in scope and method, providing detailed philological underpinning as well as a wealth of thematic research. Together, these two volumes constitute an important contribution towards the comprehensive range of commentaries on Sidonius' work planned by the 'Sidonius Apollinaris for the Twenty-First Century' project for publication in the LAHR series. Like its companion volume, this work will be of interest to classicists and medievalists, to literary scholars and church historians, to those concerned with philological and historical intricacies and those interested in the broader development of literature and mentalities in Late Antiquity."--

Series Statement

Late antique history and religion ; 2, 14

Uniform Title

Late antique history and religion ; 2, 14.

Alternative Title

• Commentary on Sidonius Apollinaris, Letters, Book 7
• Episcopal letters 1-11.
• Ascetic letters 12-18.

Subjects

• 284-499
• Sources
• History
• Rome > History > Empire, 284-476 > Sources
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Latin letters > History and criticism
• Sidonius Apollinaris, Saint, 431 or 432-approximately 487 > Correspondence Book 7

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• Sources

Note

• Includes the text of Book 7 of Sidonius Apollinaris' Epistulae, in Latin with phrase-by-phrase explications in English.
• Slightly revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Amsterdam, 2009.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, p. [591]-609) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

v. 1. The episcopal letters 1-11 -- v.2 The ascetic letters 12-18

ISBN

• 9789042923201
• 9042923202

OCLC

• 679922704
• SCSB-12222770

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library