Xiii, 370 pp. Bibliography, index. Octavo. Glossy hardcover with black banner, dark orange spine and title banner, and an ancient Roman image. Minimal shelf wear. Interior first blank has owner name marked out in black. There are a few marginalia in ink, one yellow highlighter spot, otherwise clean and nice. Priced low to reflect these small defects. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 370 pages; Signed by Author.

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Title

Politics and Tradition between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople. a Study of Cassiodorus and the Variae, 527-554

Publisher

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Publication Date

2013

Language

English

ISBN 10

110702840X

ISBN 13

9781107028401

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Good

Dust Jacket Condition

No Dust Jacket

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Signed by Author(s)

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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.

About the Author

M. Shane Bjornlie is Assistant Professor of Roman and Late Antique History at Claremont McKenna College. His research interests include ethnography, late-antique letter collections, ancient political culture and the 'decline and fall' of the Roman Empire.

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