Epistulae

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Latin literary work collection of letters

Epistulae is a collection of letters by the late Roman aristocrat and bishop Sidonius Apollinaris, valued for its detailed portrayal of Gallo-Roman society in the 5th century.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Epistulae canonical	1
letters of Sidonius Apollinaris	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Latin literary work ⓘ collection of letters ⓘ
associatedWith	Arverni aristocracy ⓘ Gallo-Roman culture NERFINISHED ⓘ
author	Sidonius Apollinaris NERFINISHED ⓘ
contains	letters by Sidonius Apollinaris ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Western Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
dateWritten	5th century ⓘ
fieldOfStudy	Latin epistolography ⓘ Roman history ⓘ patristics ⓘ
genre	letter collection ⓘ
hasAuthorEthnicity	Gallo-Roman ⓘ
hasAuthorOccupation	Roman aristocrat ⓘ bishop ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn	historiography of Late Antiquity ⓘ study of Gallo-Roman aristocracy ⓘ
hasPerspective	Christian bishop’s viewpoint ⓘ elite aristocratic viewpoint ⓘ
historicalContext	decline of the Western Roman Empire ⓘ
historicalPeriod	Late Antiquity ⓘ
language	Latin ⓘ
literaryForm	epistolary literature ⓘ
literaryMovement	late Roman Latin literature ⓘ
literaryStyle	classicizing Latin prose ⓘ highly rhetorical Latin ⓘ
mainSubject	Gallo-Roman aristocracy ⓘ Gallo-Roman society NERFINISHED ⓘ late Roman society ⓘ
notableFor	detailed portrayal of Gallo-Roman society ⓘ evidence for transition from Roman to post-Roman rule in Gaul ⓘ information on 5th-century Gaul ⓘ insight into late Roman aristocratic life ⓘ
placeOfComposition	Clermont NERFINISHED ⓘ Gaul NERFINISHED ⓘ
preservedIn	medieval manuscripts ⓘ
relatedWork	Carmina (Sidonius Apollinaris) NERFINISHED ⓘ
religiousContext	Christianity ⓘ Latin Church NERFINISHED ⓘ
studiedIn	church history ⓘ classical philology ⓘ late antique studies ⓘ
timePeriodDescribed	5th century ⓘ last decades of the Western Roman Empire ⓘ
usedAs	historical source ⓘ source for political history of 5th-century Gaul ⓘ source for prosopography of Late Antiquity ⓘ source for social history of the Western Roman Empire ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sidonius Apollinaris → notableWork → Epistulae ⓘ

Hunnic invasions of Gaul → describedIn → Epistulae ⓘ

this entity surface form: letters of Sidonius Apollinaris