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Einhard and the Historia Augusta (2023)
Journal Article

In recent years, a consensus has begun to develop that Einhard had read the Historia Augusta and that he used it in his Vita Karoli magni. In particular, scholars have argued that he must have drawn the rare word dicaculus from the text. In this arti... Read More about Einhard and the Historia Augusta.

Language and History in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial West (2023)
Book Chapter

Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces (2023)
Book

Earliest Western References to Islam (2023)
Book Chapter

The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor (2023)
Book

This book rediscovers a lost history of the Roman Empire, written by Sextus Aurelius Victor (ca. 320-390) and demonstrates for the first time both the contemporary and lasting influence of his historical work. Though little regarded today, Victor is... Read More about The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor.

The Circulation of the Scholia Vallicelliana to Isidore (2023)
Journal Article

This study brings together the evidence for the circulation of an important monument of early medieval scholarship, the Scholia Vallicelliana to Isidore, which Claudia Villa brilliantly attributed to Paul the Deacon in 1984. Starting from the Vallice... Read More about The Circulation of the Scholia Vallicelliana to Isidore.

The Poet Nemesianus and the Historia Augusta (2022)
Journal Article

Lurking in the Historia Augusta’s life of the short-lived Emperor Carus is what appears to be a reference to the genuine contemporary poet Nemesianus and an extant work by him, the Cynegetica. Given the HA’s predilection for ‘bogus authors’, this is... Read More about The Poet Nemesianus and the Historia Augusta.

Historiarum libri quinque: Hegesippus between Josephus and Sallust (2022)
Journal Article

This article examines the influence of Sallust on Hegesippus, the fourth-century historian and adaptor of Josephus (commonly referred to as pseudo-Hegesippus). Analysis of the structure of his work reveals that Hegesippus strove to write in five book... Read More about Historiarum libri quinque: Hegesippus between Josephus and Sallust.

'A Faraway Land of Which We Know Little'? Britain in the Politics of the Fourth-Century Empire (2021)
Book Chapter

Codex Nicholsonianus (2021)
Journal Article

Review of: OLIVER NICHOLSON (ED.), THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF LATE ANTIQUITY. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Two vols.: A-I, pp. lxxxiv + 1–800, J-Z, pp. xi + 801–1637. ISBN: 9780198662778. £215.

Jordanes and the Date of the Epitome de Caesaribus (2021)
Journal Article

The Epitome de Caesaribus is universally assumed to be a work of the late fourth or early fifth centuries. In this article, we demonstrate that the Epitome was in fact compiled at some point after the middle of the sixth century, by showing on textua... Read More about Jordanes and the Date of the Epitome de Caesaribus.

Aurelius Victor And The Ending Of Sallust's Jugurtha (2020)
Journal Article

Abstract: In his De Caesaribus, the historian Aurelius Victor drew a comparison between the emperor Diocletian and the Republican general and consul Marius: two ambitious individuals from humble backgrounds who had dressed in an excessively extravaga... Read More about Aurelius Victor And The Ending Of Sallust's Jugurtha.

Myrmeicus or Myrmecius? (2019)
Journal Article

In this article, I examine the name of a friend and correspondent of the fourth-century poet Avienius, commonly identified hitherto as Flavianus Myrmeicus. After summarising the current state of research and translating the verse epistle which he rec... Read More about Myrmeicus or Myrmecius?.

Uncovering Constans’ image (2018)
Book Chapter

Gibbon among the Barbarians (2018)
Book Chapter

Giovanni de Matociis and the Codex Oratorianus of the De uiris illustribus urbis Romae (2017)
Journal Article

One of the most curious manuscripts of the De uiris illustribus is Biblioteca dei Girolamini, XL pil. VI, no. XIII. This manuscript has been thought either to go back to the early Veronese humanist Giovanni de Matociis, or to contain authentic ancien... Read More about Giovanni de Matociis and the Codex Oratorianus of the De uiris illustribus urbis Romae.

Remigius and the 'Important News' of Clovis rewritten (2016)
Journal Article

Cet article est un nouvel examen de la Lettre austrasienne n° 2, adressée par Rémi, évêque de Reims, à Clovis, roi des Francs. Nous proposons une nouvelle transcription du texte, accompagnée d’une traduction et suivie d’une étude des interprétations... Read More about Remigius and the 'Important News' of Clovis rewritten.

Assembling the Austrasian Letters at Trier and Lorsch (2016)
Journal Article

This article is a reconsideration of the Epistulae Austrasicae. We critique the widespread notion that the constituent letters were compiled by a courtier in the late sixth century at Metz as a book of models for use in the Austrasian chancellery. We... Read More about Assembling the Austrasian Letters at Trier and Lorsch.