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(2025)From the nugae of Sidonius, numerous and important pieces of information about the author's biography emerge. He recounts events from his daily life (stays with friends, dinner invitations, financial difficulties, impatience ...
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(2025)This study examines some of the ways in which Dracontius’ prison experience is represented and dramatized in his ‘prison writings’: Satisfactio, Epithalamium Ioannis et Vitulae (Romul. 7), De laudibus dei (last section of ...
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(2025)This article studies the role of the autobiographical element in confessional literature, particularly in St Patrick’s Confessio . After a general reflection on the function of autobiography in 5th-6th century confessions ...
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(2025)The Eucharisticos, composed by Paulinus of Pella in fifth-century Marseille, stands out for the contrast between the author’s professed gratitude for God’s mercy and the persistence of his aristocratic values – especially ...
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(2025)This paper focuses on poem 1 (and partly 2) as a case study to assess the kind of autobiography depicted in Ausonius’ Ephemeris. Our analysis reveals a linguistic and metric poikilía, an interweaving of everyday life and ...
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(2025)The paper aims to trace elements of a syntactic and stylistic nature within the Itinerarium Egeriae that may contribute to the pilgrim’s travel account also being considered as a kind of autobiography.
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(2025)The examination of some texts (by Augustine and Possidius), as well as the prologue of the Retractationes, convinces us that this work is entirely consistent with the author’s sensibility as a thinker and writer, and is ...
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(2025)This contribution analyzes several passages, especially from Jerome’s epistles, from which it emerges that the Father includes autobiographical informations in a context of literary and cultural elaboration; and, in addition, ...
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(2025)Ancient letter collections possess clear autobiographical elements and potential, since their constituent letters regularly contain fragments of the author’s life story. But it is not clear that autobiographical narration ...
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(2025)The first book of the De excessu fratris is built around three main thematic strands, namely consolation, expression of grief, and praise of the deceased. Alongside Ambrose inserts many personal recollections: these are ...
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(2025)This paper examines the link between autobiographical discourse and hagiographic poetry in Paulinus of Nola's Natalicia, showing Paulinus as the unifying force of the poetic discourse, with his relationship to Saint Felix ...
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(2025)This paper focuses on an expressive form that in the carmina of Venantius Fortunatus assumes a strongly autobiographical connotation. The mention of his own name by the author actually is a real sphragís that imparts to ...
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(2025)Despite a certain reluctance to highlight relevant aspects of his biographical profile, Claudian occasionally outlines traits of his artistic personality within some of his prefatory elegiac couplets preceding the hexameter ...
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(2024)The translations of zoonyms in the Exodus are the focus of this contribution. Among them, there are the locusts, of which the scribe of Bern Burgerbibliotek 27 declares not to know the French correspondent. Another case ...
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(2024)The aim of the present communication is to investigate and present the different nuances of the natural contingency recounted within the historical and literary production of the Toulousain canonist and ambassador Bernard ...
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(2024)This study addresses the issues of the previous edition of Philippe de Thaon's lapidaries and provides new data for a future edition. The codicological analysis and some recent studies rectify the previous distribution and ...
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(2024)On his return journey from the court of the Great Khan in Beijing, the Florentine Franciscan friar John of Marignolli (†1358/1359) also visited Ceylon, the land inhabited by humans closest to the Terrestrial Paradise and, ...
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(2024)The essay proposes some general reflections on description as a mode of representing nature in medieval vernacular texts, and on the correlation between its phenomenology and the so-called 'natural feeling' in 'mentalities' ...
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(2024)In this paper, we intend to analyse one of the odeporic works from the corpus of Ennodius of Pavia (Ennod. 245 V. = carm. 1.1 H.) through the combined interaction of interpretative perspectives and visualisation tools. The ...
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(2024)The paper analyses a brief passage from the dialogue De lite inter Naturam et Fortunam by Albertino Mussato, in which two animal similes are employed. The sources of these similes are identified, revealing a combination ...
