Notes on Contributors
Agnese Bargagna
obtained her joint PhD Degree in Classics at the University of Macerata and at the Université Paris-Sorbonne in 2020 for her thesis “Ammiano Marcellino e l’Umanesimo: tradizione e ricezione delle Res gestae a partire dai testimoni manoscritti del XV sec. fino alle prime edizioni a stampa”. Her interests and publications are mostly on Imperial and Late-Antique Latin Literature, Codicology and Reception Studies (fifteenth century).
Maxime Emion
is Lecturer of Ancient History at the Université Savoie Mont Blanc. He has written several articles on the military and political history of Late Antiquity, and is currently preparing a monograph on the protectores Augusti.
Michael Hanaghan
is Research Fellow at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at ACU, Melbourne. He is the author of Reading Sidonius’ Epistles (Cambridge, 2019), and has published numerous articles on Late Antique historiography including Ammianus Marcellinus (Philologus, Hermes, Historia), Rufinus of Aquileia, and Sozomen.
Gavin Kelly
has taught since 2005 in the Department of Classics at the University of Edinburgh, where he is now Professor of Latin Literature and Roman History. His books include Ammianus Marcellinus: The Allusive Historian (Cambridge, 2008), Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity, edited with Lucy Grig (New York, 2012) and The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris, edited with Joop van Waarden (Edinburgh, 2020). He is the author of many articles on Latin authors including Ammianus, Claudian, Rutilius Namatianus, Symmachus, Sidonius, and Martial, on late Roman political history, and on early modern scholarship. He is currently translating Ammianus for The Landmark Ammianus Marcellinus, a collaboration with Michael Kulikowski, and is contracted to produce the Oxford Classical Text of Ammianus.
J.E. Lendon
is Professor in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. He is author of Empire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World (Oxford, 1997); Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity (New Haven, 2005); Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins (New York, 2010) and That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World (Princeton, 2022).
Moysés Marcos
is Lecturer in History at California State University, Northridge. He is the author of numerous articles on Roman historiography and political culture, including in Latomus and the American Journal of Philology. His first monograph project, Emperors and Rhetoricians: Panegyric, Communication, and Power in the Fourth-Century Roman Empire, is in its final stages. He is currently working on a second monograph on Ammianus.
Sigrid Mratschek
is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Rostock, Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Consulting Editor of the Journal of Late Antiquity. Her monographs Divites et praepotentes (Stuttgart, 1993) on the interactions between wealth and political power under the Principate, and Der Briefwechsel des Paulinus von Nola (Göttingen, 2002) on the global networks of Christian intellectuals were awarded the Bruno Heck Prize and funded by the German Research Foundation. She is also author of numerous essays on epistolography from Pliny to Augustine and Sidonius. Currently working on visual representations and authorial voice, she is preparing a chapter on ‘Geographical space and Roman world image’ for the Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature, and the first German translation of Sidonius Apollinaris’ Panegyrics and Poems for the Tusculum collection.
Philip Rance
is Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia, and Visiting Scholar at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has taught ancient and medieval history and Greek language and literature at universities in the United Kingdom and Germany, and held senior research fellowships at Ludwig-Maximilian Universität, Munich, Koç University, Istanbul, and the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. He has published extensively on late antique historiography, warfare and martial culture, Late and Vulgar Latin, and Greek, Roman and Byzantine technical-scientific writing, its manuscript tradition and reception. He is currently editing a Companion to Military Culture in Late Antiquity and a Companion to Greek and Roman Military Literature.
Álvaro Sánchez-Ostiz
is Professor in Latin at the University of Navarra (Spain). His main research fields are late Latin historiography and poetry, with a particular interest in the creation of public discourses and images from Julian to Theodosius, as well as in phenomena of intercultural exchange in the Classical World. He has edited the volume Beginning and End: From Ammianus Marcellinus to Eusebius of Caesarea (Huelva, 2016) and is the author of several papers on the reception of Latin literature in the Greek East, the literary technique of Ammianus Marcellinus, and Claudian’s panegyrics.
Conor Whately
is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg (Canada). He has co-edited books on Greek and Roman military manuals and Byzantine identity for Routledge, and sole-authored books on Procopius (Brill), and the Roman military in Moesia (BAR). He has also written an introduction to the Roman military (Wiley) and a sensory history of ancient warfare for a general audience (Pen & Sword). Current projects include a study of the relationship between soldiers and civilians in Roman Jordan, and an examination of Anna Komnene’s approach to describing warfare.
Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele
is Senior Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of the History Department at Ghent University. He is the author of The Last of the Romans. Bonifatius, Warlord and Comes Africae (London, 2015), and has published widely on Late Roman Imperial history. He was guest-editor of the Journal of Late Antiquity’s 2019 theme-issue on “Warfare and Food-Supply in the Late Roman Empire”, and is currently preparing the edited volume Late Roman Italy. Imperium to Regnum for Edinburgh University Press and a monograph Rome’s Disintegration. War, Violence and the End of Empire in the West for Oxford University Press.
Guy Williams
is Lecturer of Ancient History at the University of Liverpool. Since receiving his PhD in 2018 from the University of Manchester, his main research focus has concerned aspects of Ammianus’ historiography. The author of a forthcoming article on information wars in the Res gestae, he is currently working on a monograph analysing the presentation of identity in Ammianus specifically and the fourth century more widely.
David Woods
is the Head of the Department of Classics at University College Cork. He has published widely in Roman Imperial and Late Antique history from the first century to the seventh century AD, with a particular interest in the works of Suetonius, Tacitus, Ammianus Marcellinus and Theophanes Confessor. He has also published widely on the coinage of the same period. He is currently completing a monograph analysing the attitude of Ammianus Marcellinus towards Christrianity.
Michael Wuk
is Senior Classical Languages Tutor at the University of Lincoln. He has written articles on the swearing of oaths in various aspects of late-antique society, including in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik and the Journal of Late Antiquity. He is also currently working on a monograph which will reinterpret the significance of oaths across a range of late-antique contexts and a broader project on rites of passage in the early medieval Mediterranean.