M. Shane Bjornlie (California Claremont McKenna College)

Politics and Tradition Between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople

A Study of Cassiodorus and the Variae, 527 554

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 718g
• ISBN-13: 9781107028401
• ISBN-10: 110702840X
• Artikelnr.: 36617772

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.