The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris Hardback
Edited by Gavin Kelly, Joop van Waarden
Hardback
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A multidisciplinary survey of Sidonius Apollinaris and his works First 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.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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:768 pages, 4 B/W illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2020
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- ISBN:9781474461696
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:768 pages, 4 B/W illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781474461696
