Politics and tradition between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople : a study of Cassiodorus and the Variae 527-554 /
"The Variae of Cassiodorus have long been valued as an epistolary collection offering a window into political and cultural life in a so-called barbarian successor state in sixth-century Italy. However, this study is the first to treat them as more than an assemblage of individual case studies a...
| Основен автор: | Bjornlie, Michael Shane, 1969- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Серия: |
Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ;
4th ser., 89. |
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Съдържание:
- Part I, The Variae as windows onto painted curtains : 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.