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POLITICS AND TRADITION BETWEEN ROM E,
RAVENNA AND CONSTANTINOPLE
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 anal-
yse the collection’s wider historical context. M. Shane Bjornlie highlights
the insights the
Variae
provide into early medieval political, ecclesiasti-
cal, 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.
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.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought
Fourth Series
General Editor:
rosamond mckitterick
Professor of Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College
Advisory Editors:
christine carpenter
Professor of Medieval English History, University of Cambridge
jonathan shepard
The series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought
was inaugurated
by G. G. Coulton in
1921;
Professor Rosamond McKitterick now acts as
General Editor of the Fourth Series, with Professor Christine Carpenter and
Dr Jonathan Shepard as Advisory Editors. The series brings together outstanding
work by medieval scholars over a wide range of human endeavour extending
from political economy to the history of ideas.
This is book 89 in the series and a full list of titles in the series can be found at:
www.cambridge.org/medievallifeandthought
POLITICS AND TRADITION
BETWEEN ROM E, RAVENNA
AND CONSTANTINOPLE
A Study of Cassiodorus and the
Variae,
527–554
M . SHANE BJORNLIE

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