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Rejecting romanitas? Sidonius, Syagrius and the politics of language
  This paper examines an event described in Letter 5.5 of Sidonius Apollinaris which describes how the Roman aristocrat and lawyer, Syagrius, had broken with tradition and begun taking lessons in the Burgundian language. It demonstrates that this event was interpreted by Sidonius as the rejection of a Roman political identity and that he sought to use this letter as a warning and a plea to draw Syagrius back to an overtly Roman cultural and political identity.

  • Type:

    Conference Paper (unpublished)

  • Date:

    07 July 2006

  • Publication Status:

    Unpublished

  • Funders:

    Historic Funder (pre-Worktribe)

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Dodd, L. (2006, July). Rejecting romanitas? Sidonius, Syagrius and the politics of language. Paper presented at 'Without Let or Hindrance’: Inclusion and its Subversion from the Medieval to the Modern

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