No. 11 (1994): Sidonio Apolinar, Humanist of Late Antiquity: his correspondence
Antigüedad y Cristianismo
The approach between the literary and the historical approach in the study of Antiquity is a trend of today. Leading figures of this orientation are, to give some significant examples, Pierre Grima in what refers to classical Rome and Jacques Fontaine in the field of Latin-Christian culture of the first centuries. I understand that the content offered in this study by Concepción Fernández López can be integrated into this line of work that, by merging these two profiles, provides an image that gives relief and proximity to what is analyzed. The political-social crisis of the Roman Empire in the 5th century produced in Gaul a situation in which the ecclesiastical hierarchy and the monasteries progressively assumed the role of conservators of culture, while the destruction of libraries and the decline of the school reduced the possibilities of cultivation of letters by the civilian population. A good number of nobles, if any, find their place in ecclesiastical life.
