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Sidonius Apollinaris and the Fall of Rome, AD 407-485 (Hardcover, New)
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Sidonius Apollinaris and the Fall of Rome, AD 407-485 (Hardcover, New)
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The fifth century AD was a period of military turmoil and political
upheaval in Western Europe. The career of the Gallo-Roman senator
and bishop, Sidonius Apollinaris (c. 430-c. 485), holder of
government office under three Roman emperors and later bishop of
Clermont Ferrand, vividly illustrates the processes which
undermined Roman rule. A champion of Latin letters and Roman
aristocratic values, Sidonius was also for most of his career an
advocate of co-operation with the Goths of Aquitaine. Both a career
politician and an ardent Christian, Sidonius in his writings
reveals both the confusion of loyalties afflicting an aristocracy
under threat and the compromises necessary for survival. This book,
the first in English on its subject for sixty years, argues that
Sidonius adapted literary conventions and exploited accepted
techniques of allusion to explain his dilemmas, justify his own
role, and convey his personal understanding of, and response to,
the fall of Rome.
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