Letters of Recommendation of Sidonius Apollinaris – the Legacy of Tradition and the Challenge of Transformations

Tomasz Skibiński

doi:10.21697/sc.2016.23.03en

Publié le:

Vol. 23 (2016)

Letters of Recommendation of Sidonius Apollinaris – the Legacy of Tradition and the Challenge of Transformations

Tomasz Skibiński

Saeculum Christianum

Rubrique: Rozprawy i Artykuły

https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2016.23.03en

Résumé

The article presents the letters of Sidonius Apollinaris - Gallo-Roman aristocrat, poet and bishop. The study aims at analysing the letters of Sidonius from the point of view of their purpose, the models used, the argumentation, and the list of recipients to whom the letters are addressed. On the one hand, it shows that Sidonius remaining faithful to his masters in epistolography (Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Symmachus), while on the other hand, was able to change the form of letters according to the situation. The paper also allows us to discern the changes that took place in the works of Sidonius after his ordination.

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Skibiński, T. (2021). Letters of Recommendation of Sidonius Apollinaris – the Legacy of Tradition and the Challenge of Transformations. Saeculum Christianum, 23(1), 23–34. https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2016.23.03en

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Tomasz Skibiński

Affiliation:

WNHiS UKSW, Warszawa Pologne

Note biographique

Priest dr Tomasz Skibiński SAC, patrologist and historian specialising in the study of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Western Roman Empire and succession kingdoms in the West. The Deputy Director of the Institute of Historical Sciences at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw.