The Variae

The Variae
Author: Cassiodorus
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2022-01-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520389700

Cassiodorus—famed throughout history as one of the great Christian exegetes of antiquity—spent most of his life as a high-ranking public official under the Ostrogothic King Theoderic and his heirs. He produced the Variae, a unique letter collection that gave witness to the sixth-century Mediterranean, as late antiquity gave way to the early middle ages. The Variae represents thirty years of Cassiodorus’s work in civil, legal, and financial administration, revealing his interactions with emperors and kings, bishops and military commanders, private citizens, and even criminals. Thus, the Variae remains among the most important sources for the history of this pivotal period and is an indispensable resource for understanding political and diplomatic culture, economic and legal structure, intellectual heritage, urban landscapes, religious worldview, and the evolution of social relations at all levels of society during the twilight of the late-Roman state. This is the first full translation of this masterwork into English.

The Selected Letters of Cassiodorus

The Selected Letters of Cassiodorus
Author: Cassiodorus
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520297342

One of the great Christian scholars of antiquity and a high-ranking public official under Theoderic, King of the Ostrogoths, Cassiodorus compiled edicts, diplomatic letters, and legal documents while in office. The collection of his writings, the Variae, remains among the most important sources for the sixth century, the period during which late antiquity transitioned to the early middle ages. Translated and selected by scholar M. Shane Bjornlie, The Selected Letters gathers the most interesting evidence from the Veriae for understanding the political culture, legal structure, intellectual and religious worldviews, and social evolution during the twilight of the late-Roman state. Bjornlie’s invaluable introduction discusses Cassiodorus’s work in civil, legal, and financial administration, revealing his interactions with emperors, kings, bishops, military commanders, private citizens, and even criminals. Section notes introduce each letter to contextualize its themes and connection with other letters, opening a window to Cassiodorus’s world.

The Letters of Cassiodorus

The Letters of Cassiodorus
Author: Senator Cassiodorus
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2022-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Letters of Cassiodorus" (Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator) by Senator Cassiodorus. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Late Antique Letter Collections

Late Antique Letter Collections
Author: Cristiana Sogno
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2019-11-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0520308417

Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300–600 c.e.). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary letters, introducing the social and textual histories of each collection and examining its assembly, publication, and transmission. Contributions also reveal how collections operated as discrete literary genres, with their own conventions and self-presentational agendas. This book will fundamentally change how people both read these texts and use letters to reconstruct the social history of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries.

The Variae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator ...

The Variae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator ...
Author: Senator Cassiodorus
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0853234361

Cassiodorus (c.485–585), Roman senator and consul, served in various high offices from c.505 to c.538, under the kings of the Ostrogoths, who had inherited the imperial administration of Italy. For long periods the Goths' chief publicist, he compiled the state papers he had drafted, as their regime crumbled under Byzantine attack. This selection is the first translation to appear since 1886. " ... excellent and invaluable ..."—Classical Review

Roman Letters

Roman Letters
Author: Matthew B. Schwartz
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2018-07-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1725240076

In this selection of letters, notable Romans write about themselves and their times, as well as about personal and public matters. Seneca provides indignant remarks about the behavior of women in Nero's Rome. From his monastic cell in Bethlehem, St. Jerome berates St. Augustine for gossip he may have spread. Some letters give a different perspective to history, while other talk of harvests, marriages, and day-to-day events. For historical continuity, Hooper and Schwartz include a running commentary and brief biographical sketches on the writers.