The selected letters of Cassiodorus : a sixth-century sourcebook /
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| Author / Creator: | Cassiodorus, Senator, approximately 487-approximately 580, author. |
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| Uniform title: | Variae. Selections. English (Bjornlie) |
| Imprint: | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] ©2020 |
| Description: | 312 pages : maps ; 20 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12537090 |
Table of Contents:
- Sixth-century Italy in a wider world : diplomatic letters from the Ostrogothic court to the Eastern imperial and Western "Barbarian" courts
- The senate in public life and public office : letters to the senate, letters to individual senators, letters announcing the appointment of senators to office
- Civil bureaucracy and administration in Italy : letters describing the activities of the court bureaucracy and appointment to bureaucratic posts
- Taxes and finances : letters describing fiscal organization, the collection, and distribution of State resources
- Administration of provinces : letters concerned with Ostrogothic administration of regions outside of Italy
- Goths and the military: letters concerning Gothic settlement and the organization of the military
- Urban Life : letters describing the care of the urban environment
- Rural Life : letters addressed to the settlement of people in the countryside and their obligations to the State
- Religion : letters to bishops and letters touching upon the court's involvement in religious matters and its spiritual sentiments
- Family and gender : letters concerning households, relations between family members, and letters to women
- Law, order, and conflict : letters describing the court's approach to criminal charges against individuals
- Intellectual culture : letters treating various disciplines of the late-antique intellectual culture
- Nature : letters that provide literary perspectives of the natural world.
