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Politics and Tradition Between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople

A Study of Cassiodorus and the Variae, 527-554 [Paperback]

by California) M. Shane Bjornlie (claremont Mckenna College

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Cambridge University Press

    • Published

      October 2015

    • Weight

      514g

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      Politics and Tradition Between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople

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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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      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Cambridge University Press

      • Published

        October 2015

      • Weight

        514g

      • Page Count

        386

      • Dimensions

        153 x 229 x 21 mm

      • ISBN

        9781107529311

      • ISBN-10

        110752931X

      • Eden Code

        4339894

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      • ISBN: 9781107529311

      • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

      • Release Date: October 2015

      • Weight: 514g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 21 mm

      • Eden Code: 4339894


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