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Politics and Tradition Between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople - A Study of Cassiodorus and the Variae, 527-554 (Paperback)
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Politics and Tradition Between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople - A Study of Cassiodorus and the Variae, 527-554 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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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 and to analyse the
collection's wider historical context. M. Shane Bjornlie highlights
the insights the Variae provide into early medieval political,
ecclesiastical, fiscal and legal affairs and the influence of the
political and military turbulence of Justinian's reconquest of
Italy and of political and cultural exchanges between Italy and
Constantinople. The book also explores how Cassiodorus revised,
updated and assembled the Variae for publication and what this
reveals about his motives for publishing an epistolary record and
for his own political life at a crucial period of transformation
for the Roman world.
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