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Politics and tradition between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople : a study of Cassiodorus and the Variae 527-554 /
A revealing study of the Variae of Cassiodorus and the insight that the epistolary collection can provide into sixth-century Italy.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ;
4th ser., 89. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: The Variae as windows onto painted curtains. Introduction
- 1. Cassiodorus and Italy in the fifth and sixth centuries. Empire in the sixth century ; Cassiodorus and the Gothic war ; Locating the Variae ; The Variae in a context of political urgency
- Part II: Cassiodorus and the circumstances of political survival. Introduction
- 2. The age of bureaucracy. Ideology and legitimacy ; Structures of political power at Constantinople ; The structure of the eastern bureaucracy ; Bureaucratic intellectual culture ; Neoplatonism and bureaucratic culture
- 3. The reign of Justinian. Regime change ; Bureaucracy under siege ; Contesting law and religion in Constantinople ; The Nika revolt ; The aftermath
- 4. Voices of discontent in Constantinople. The literary public of political complaint ; Zosimus at the threshold of the debate ; Marcellinus Comes on Zosimus and empire ; The anonymus Valesianus as imperial propaganda ; Junillus Africanus and the biblical basis for empire ; The anonymous Dialogue on political science ; Procopius and the 'secret' riposte ; The gothic histories of Jordanes and Cassiodorus ; John Lydus at the centre of conflict ; John Malalas ; Echoes of controversy
- 5. The Anicii between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople. New audiences for Constantinopolitan controversy ; The Western Senatorial and Palatine Divide in Constantinople ; The political importance of the Anicii ; The fall of Boethius and the Amals ; Western Anicii in Constantinople during the Gothic War ; Memories of Boethius and Theoderic during the Gothic War ; The Ordo generis of Cassiodorus
- 6. The memory of Boethius in the Variae. Rewriting family histories ; Rewriting the De consolatione and the Anicii ; The constructed memory of Boethius
- Part III: Reading the Variae as political apologetic. Introduction
- 7. Literary aspects of the Variae. The prefaces and audience of the Variae ; The rhetorical purpose of Varietas ; The Variae and the late antique chancery
- 8. Antiquitas and novitas : the language of good governance in the Variae. Justinianic law as novitas ; Antiquitas legis in the Variae ; The virtue of conserving the past ; The formulae as models of traditionalism ; The ethics of public building ; The Variae in contrast ; Church building in the Variae ; Civilitas
- 9. Natura and law in Justinian's novellae and the Variae. Sixth-century cultural debates ; The new natural law and the classical tradition of natura ; Classical natura and the divine ; Christian interest in natura ; Neoplatonic interest in natura ; Natura in the Variae ; Natura as the source of tradition and moral governance ; Cassiodorus' sources for natura
- 10. Reading good governance in the variae and the de anima. Discerning probity ; Procopius and reading nature ; Cassiodorus and the portrayal of reading probity ; The De anima and the soul as the instrument of reading probity ; Conscientia and spiritual light
- 11. The Variae as apologetic narrative. Cassiodorus and self-presentation ; Theodahad as a rhetorical foil ; Theodahad's failed vision ; Rhetorical arrangement in the Variae
- 12. Conclusion: Innovative traditionalism and its consequence.