Politics and Tradition Between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople

A Study of Cassiodorus and the Variae, 527–554

Nonfiction, History, Medieval, Ancient History
Cover of the book Politics and Tradition Between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople by M. Shane Bjornlie, Cambridge University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: M. Shane Bjornlie ISBN: 9781139610902
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: November 22, 2012
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: M. Shane Bjornlie
ISBN: 9781139610902
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: November 22, 2012
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Cambridge University Press

Cover of the book Mao Cult by M. Shane Bjornlie
Cover of the book The Colonial Caribbean by M. Shane Bjornlie
Cover of the book The Shadow Economy by M. Shane Bjornlie
Cover of the book Managing the Critically Ill Child by M. Shane Bjornlie
Cover of the book The Black Sea and the Early Civilizations of Europe, the Near East and Asia by M. Shane Bjornlie
Cover of the book Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in Postcommunist Europe by M. Shane Bjornlie
Cover of the book Marriage by Capture in the Book of Judges by M. Shane Bjornlie
Cover of the book WTO Analytical Index by M. Shane Bjornlie
Cover of the book The World of Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus by M. Shane Bjornlie
Cover of the book Children and the Politics of Cultural Belonging by M. Shane Bjornlie
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to Film Music by M. Shane Bjornlie
Cover of the book The Veiled Sceptre by M. Shane Bjornlie
Cover of the book Empires and Bureaucracy in World History by M. Shane Bjornlie
Cover of the book The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy by M. Shane Bjornlie
Cover of the book World Literature and the Geographies of Resistance by M. Shane Bjornlie
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy