Politics and tradition between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople : a study of Cassiodorus and the Variae 527-554 /
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Author / Creator: | Bjornlie, M. Shane, 1969- |
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Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. |
Description: | xiii, 370 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Fourth series ; 89 Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 89. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9115826 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. The Variae as Windows onto Painted Curtains: Introduction
- 1. Cassiodorus and Italy at the end of the long-fifth century
- Part II. Cassiodorus and the Circumstances of Political Survival
- 2. The age of bureaucracy
- 3. The reign of Justinian
- 4. Voices of discontent in Constantinople
- 5. The Anicii between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople
- 6. The memory of Boethius in the Variae
- Part III. Reading the Variae as Political Apologetic
- 7. Literary aspects of the Variae
- 8. Antiquitas and Novitas: the language of good governance in the Variae
- 9. Natura and Law in Justinian's Novellae and the Variae
- 10. Reading good governance in the Variae and the De anima
- 11. The Variae as apologetic narrative
- 12. Conclusion: innovative traditionalism and its consequence
- Bibliography