Cassiodorus: Institutions of Divine and Secular Learning

by Cassiodorus

Book Overview

As a minister of the Ostrogothic regime in the time of Theoderic, Cassiodorus had as brilliant a political career as any Roman of the late empire. Around 538 CE he published a collection of his state letters under the title of Variae (TTH 12), and disappeared from the public record. Half a century later, dying at his country estate in Calabria, he left behind the exemplars for another world of texts: that of the Christian universe of Scripture, now...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853239983
• ISBN13: 9780853239987
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 7.4"