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  1. Politics and tradition between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople
    a study of Cassiodorus and the Variae, 527 - 554
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

    "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... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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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 provides into early medieval political, ecclesiastical, fiscal and legal affairs and the influence of the political and military turbulence of Justinian's re-conquest 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"--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781107028401; 110702840X; 9781107529311
    Other identifier:
    9781107028401
    RVK Categories: FX 480805 ; NH 4650
    Series: Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; Ser. 4, 89
    Subjects: Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius; ; Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius;
    Other subjects: Cassiodorus Senator (approximately 487-approximately 580): Variae; Cassiodorus Senator (approximately 487-approximately 580); Array; Array; Array; Array
    Scope: XIII, 370 S., 24 cm
    Notes:

    Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index

    Machine generated contents note: 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.

  2. Politics and tradition between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople
    a study of Cassiodorus and the Variae, 527 - 554
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

    "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... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    1 A 866061
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    Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
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    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
    GE 2013/2405
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    Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Geschichtliche Rechtsvergleichung, Bibliothek
    Frei 81: Hist - Bjor 1 - 1
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    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
    A 2013/496
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    2013 A 7465
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    Bereichsbibliothek Altertumswissenschaften, Abteilung Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik
    V / C 40 / 114
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    Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
    KPH:GC:3120:h:B626:2013
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    Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, Zentralbibliothek
    Bereich Klassisches Altertum
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    Universitätsbibliothek Rostock
    FX 480805 B626
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    Historisches Seminar, Abteilung für Alte Geschichte, Bibliothek
    B Cass 600
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    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    63.2973
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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 provides into early medieval political, ecclesiastical, fiscal and legal affairs and the influence of the political and military turbulence of Justinian's re-conquest 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"--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781107028401; 110702840X; 9781107529311
    Other identifier:
    9781107028401
    RVK Categories: FX 480805 ; NH 4650
    Series: Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; Ser. 4, 89
    Subjects: Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius; ; Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius;
    Other subjects: Cassiodorus Senator (approximately 487-approximately 580): Variae; Cassiodorus Senator (approximately 487-approximately 580); Array; Array; Array; Array
    Scope: XIII, 370 S., 24 cm
    Notes:

    Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index

    Machine generated contents note: 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.

  3. Politics and tradition between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople
    a study of Cassiodorus and the Variae 527 - 554
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

    Literaturverz. S. 334 - 363 more

    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
    hil 567/291
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    Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) / Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek
    Hist Ant 3663/6
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    Literaturverz. S. 334 - 363

     

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    Verlag (Inhaltsverzeichnis)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781107529311
    RVK Categories: FX 480755 ; FX 480805 ; NH 4650
    Edition: 1. pbk. ed.
    Series: Array ; 89
    Subjects: HISTORY / Europe / General
    Other subjects: Cassiodorus, ca. 487-ca. 580 *Senator*; Cassiodorus, ca. 487-ca. 580 *Senator*
    Scope: XIII, 370 S.