Politics and Tradition Between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople : A Study of Cassiodorus and Th...
ISBN: 9781107028401 | 110702840X
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 1/7/2013
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A revealing study of the Variae of Cassiodorus and the insight that the epistolary collection can provide into sixth-century Italy.
This study examines the historical context of Cassiodorus' Variae as a collection, rather than as an assemblage of individual case studies on sixth-century Italy. It reveals the author's motives in preparing the epistolary collection and, in doing so, sheds new light on early medieval political, ecclesiastical, fiscal and legal affairs.
The Variae of Cassi... MORE
This study examines the historical context of Cassiodorus' Variae as a collection, rather than as an assemblage of individual case studies on sixth-century Italy. It reveals the author's motives in preparing the epistolary collection and, in doing so, sheds new light on early medieval political, ecclesiastical, fiscal and legal affairs.
The Variae of Cassi... MORE
| The Variae as Windows onto Painted Curtains: Introduction | |
| Cassiodorus and Italy at the end of the long-fifth century | |
| Cassiodorus and the Circumstances of Political Survival | |
| The age of bureaucracy | |
| The reign of Justinian | |
| Voices of discontent in Constantinople | |
| The Anicii between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople | |
| The memory of Boethius in the Variae | ... MORE |
| Reading the Variae as Political Apologetic | |
| Literary aspects of the Variae | |
| Antiquitas and Novitas: the language of good governance in the Variae | |
| Natura and Law in Justinian's Novellae and the Variae | |
| Reading good governance in the Variae and the De anima | |
| The Variae as apologetic narrative | |
| Conclusion: innovative traditionalism and its consequence | |
| Bibliography | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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