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1 online resource. |
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Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Fourth series ; no. 89
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Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 89.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
A revealing study of the Variae of Cassiodorus and the insight that the epistolary collection can provide into sixth-century Italy. |
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Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; PART I The Variae as windows onto painted curtains; Introduction; Chapter 1 CASSIODORUS AND ITALY IN THE FIFTH AND SIXTH CENTURIES; Empire in the sixth century; Cassiodorus and the gothic war; Locating the variae; The variae in a context of political urgency; Part II Cassiodorus and the circumstances of political survival; Introduction; Chapter 2 THE AGE OF BUREAUCRACY; Ideology and legitimacy; Structures of political power at constantinople; The structure of the eastern bureaucracy; Bureaucratic intellectual culture. |
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Neoplatonism and bureaucratic cultureChapter 3 THE REIGN OF JUSTINIAN; Regime change; Bureaucracy under siege; Contesting law and religion in constantinople; The nika revolt; The aftermath; Chapter 4 VOICES OF DISCONTENT IN CONSTANTINOPLE; The literary public of political complaint; Zosimus at the threshold of the debate; Marcellinus comes on zosimus and empire; The anonymus valesianus as imperial propaganda; Junillus africanus and the biblical basis for empire; The anonymous dialogue on political science; Procopius and the 'secret' riposte; The gothic histories of jordanes and cassiodorus. |
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John lydus at the centre of conflictJohn malalas; Echoes of controversy; Chapter 5 THE ANICII BETWEEN ROME, RAVENNA AND CONSTANTINOPLE; New audiences for constantinopolitan controversy; The western senatorial and palatine divide in constantinople; The political importance of the anicii; The fall of boethius and the amals; Western anicii in constantinople during the gothic war; Memories of boethius and theoderic during the gothic war; The ordo generis of cassiodorus; Chapter 6 THE MEMORY OF BOETHIUS IN THE VARIAE; Rewriting family histories; Rewriting the de consolatione and the anicii. |
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The constructed memory of boethiusPART III Reading the Variae as political apologetic; Introduction; Chapter 7 LITERARY ASPECTS OF THE VARIAE; The prefaces and audience of the variae; The rhetorical purpose of varietas; The variae and the late antique chancery; Chapter 8 ANTIQUITAS AND NOVITAS; Justinianic law as novitas; Antiquitas legis in the variae; The virtue of conserving the past; The formulae as models of traditionalism; The ethics of public building; The variae in contrast; Church building in the variae; Civilitas; Chapter 9 NATURA AND LAW IN JUSTINIAN'S NOVELLAE AND THE VARIAE. |
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Sixth-century cultural debatesThe new natural law and the classical tradition of natura; Classical natura and the divine; Christian interest in natura; Neoplatonic interest in natura; Natura in the variae; Natura as the source of tradition and moral governance; Cassiodorus' sources for natura; Chapter 10 READING GOOD GOVERNANCE IN THE VARIAE AND THE DE ANIMA; Discerning probity; Procopius and reading nature; Cassiodorus and the portrayal of reading probity; The de anima and the soul as the instrument of reading probity; Conscientia and spiritual light. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Cassiodorus, Senator, approximately 487-approximately 580. Variae.
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Cassiodorus, Senator, approximately 487-approximately 580 -- Political and social views.
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Cassiodorus, Senator, approximately 487-approximately 580. |
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Political and social views. |
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Germanic Invasions of Rome (Rome : 3rd-6th centuries) |
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Variae (Cassiodorus, Senator) |
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Rome -- History -- Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries.
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Rome (Empire) |
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History. |
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Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries |
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Italy -- Politics and government -- 476-1268.
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Italy. |
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Politics and government. |
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476-1268 |
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Rome -- History -- Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries. |
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Italy -- Politics and government -- 476-1268. |
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200-1268 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781283870603 (DLC) 2012024346 |
| ISBN |
9781107028401 (Cloth) |
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110702840X (Cloth) |
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9781283870603 (MyiLibrary) |
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1283870606 (MyiLibrary) |
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9781139236171 (electronic book) |
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1139236172 (electronic book) |
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9781139625784 (electronic book) |
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1139625780 (electronic book) |
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9781139612760 (e-book) |
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113961276X (e-book) |
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40022060053 |
