A revealing study of the Variae of Cassiodorus and the insight that the epistolary collection can provide into sixth-century Italy.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
M. Shane Bjornlie is Assistant Professor of Roman and Late Antique History at Claremont McKenna College. His research interests include ethnography, late-antique letter collections, ancient political culture and the 'decline and fall' of the Roman Empire.
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Part I. The Variae as Windows onto Painted Curtains: Introduction 1. Cassiodorus and Italy in the fifth and sixth centuries Part II. Cassiodorus and the Circumstances of Political Survival: 2. The age of bureaucracy 3. The reign of Justinian 4. Voices of discontent in Constantinople 5. The Anicii between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople 6. The memory of Boethius in the Variae Part III. Reading the Variae as Political Apologetic: 7. Literary aspects of the Variae 8. Antiquitas and Novitas: the language of good governance in the Variae 9. Natura and Law in Justinian's Novellae and the Variae 10. Reading good governance in the Variae and the De anima 11. The Variae as apologetic narrative 12. Conclusion: innovative traditionalism and its consequence Bibliography.
Part I. The Variae as Windows onto Painted Curtains: Introduction 1. Cassiodorus and Italy in the fifth and sixth centuries Part II. Cassiodorus and the Circumstances of Political Survival: 2. The age of bureaucracy 3. The reign of Justinian 4. Voices of discontent in Constantinople 5. The Anicii between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople 6. The memory of Boethius in the Variae Part III. Reading the Variae as Political Apologetic: 7. Literary aspects of the Variae 8. Antiquitas and Novitas: the language of good governance in the Variae 9. Natura and Law in Justinian's Novellae and the Variae 10. Reading good governance in the Variae and the De anima 11. The Variae as apologetic narrative 12. Conclusion: innovative traditionalism and its consequence Bibliography.
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