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Introduction, text and translation

E-manuscript Fabr. 91 4°: Sidonius Apollinaris & alii from the Royal Library at Copenhagen (Luetjohann p. xvii f.: cod. Hauniensis alter, saec. XIII, family of L and N).

Eugène Baret's edition, Oeuvres de Sidoine Apollinaire, Paris,1879, has been digitized in Gallica, bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2000.

The site L'Antiquité grecque et latine by Philippe Remacle offers Baret's 1879 introduction, and the text, translation and notes of the 1836 edition by Grégoire and Collombet of the correspondence.

Grégoire and Collombet's text and translation have been incorporated into Itinera Electronica of Louvain University (UCL). The text is presented as hypertext (method IntraText), marked up for research on word level. Start here.

Migne's reprint of Sirmond's 2nd (1652) edition (Patrologia Latina vol. 58, p. 441-748) can be found at Documenta Catholica Omnia.

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek is building a Digitale Bibliothek. Among its assets is the project of digitalizing the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, with, among the Auctores Antiquissimi, volume 8 Sidonius Faustus Ruricius, ed. Luetjohann and Krusch. The project is outlined on the site of the dMGH.

O.M. Dalton's translation of the letters (Oxford 1915) can be consulted via Preface Introduction Bibliography Correspondents Notes Book 7.

Life and encyclopaediac

Life and works in The Literary Encyclopedia by Joop van Waarden (2009): Sidonius Apollinaris.

Life and works in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (Band X, 1995): Sidonius Apollinaris.

Lynn H. Nelson in his series of introductory Lectures in Medieval History at the University of Kansas: The Life of Apollinaris Sidonius.

Wikipedia offers several articles, of varying depth and quality, in Catalan, Dutch, English, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.

Bibliography

Joachim Gruber (Universität München) Systematische Bibliographie until 1995.

Arbeitsgruppe"Spätantike" am Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin, Redaktion: Udo Hartmann Selected bibliography 1990-2002. Composed in preparing the 2nd edition of Alexander Demandt, Die Spätantike (Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft III.6), München, 1989.

Illustrations

SchøyenCollection, Oslo, 12th century manuscript of the Epistulae et Carmina

Faculté de Droit et Science Politique de Clermont-Ferrand, Saint Sidoine Apollinaire on a 13th century stained glass window of the cathedral of Clermont (identification is incorrect; this is Clermont's first bishop, St Austremonius; the pane is a 19th century restauration) and the Visigothic code Breviarium of Alaric.

Belmont Abbey College, Frontispice of Jacques Sirmond's edition of Sidonius' works, Paris, 2nd edition, 1652.

Orthodox Church of France, Icon of St Avitus, St Sidonius Apollinaris and St Mamertus

Late Antiquity

Ralph W. Mathisen (University of Illinois, Urbana, Il.) presents his extensive bibliography with important contributions to the history of 5th century Gaul on his (former, Univ. of South Carolina) homepage.

He is the author of the biographies of the emperors of the Western Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries on De Imperatoribus Romanis (1997-1998).

He is also responsible for the site The Geography of Roman Gaul (2002).

The Society for Late Antiquity Webpage points at, among other things, the LT-ANTIQ and related discussion lists, the programs of the Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity conferences, and a series of relevant internet links.

Journals: Journal of Late Antiquity (since 2008) and Antiquité Tardive (15 volumes since 1993: see Brepols Periodicals).

Church history

The internet version of the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Verlag Traugott Bautz, is regularly updated.

The internet version of the Catholic Encyclopedia (edition 1913) is maintained by Kevin Knight.

General resources

David Camden (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) is project manager of Forum Romanum, with as its centerpost the digital library of Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum.

William L. Carey maintains The Latin Library, which, apart from its collection of texts, comes with links to classical resources.

The Library of the University of Amsterdam presents a Digital Library for Classics.

Maria C. Pantelia  (University of California, Irvine) is responsible for the Electronic Resources for Classicists.

Ulrich Schmitzer (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin) is the editor of KIRKE, Katalog der Internetressourcen für die Klassische Philologie aus Berlin.

Bill Thayer's (University of Chicago) Lacus Curtius, apart from a wide range of topographical and historical information, offers a selection of Greek and Latin texts some of which are not available elsewhere; from Late Antiquity e.g. the complete Claudian and Macrobius' Saturnalia.