Cassiodorus

Author : James Joseph O'Donnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520036468

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Cassiodorus by James Joseph O'Donnell Pdf

Author : Senator Cassiodorus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060133389

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Cassiodorus by Senator Cassiodorus Pdf

"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, on the eve of the Byzantine reconquest of Italy, 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 encompassing the Seven Liberal Arts. The grand plan of this new dispensation is contained in the two books of his Institutions of Divine and Secular Learning, a work which would be excerpted and copied in monasteries throughout the Latin Middle Ages. The Institutions appears here in the first new English translation in more than fifty years, with explanatory notes and a historical and interpretative introduction that takes full account of recent scholarship. The treatise On the Soul, which was originally published as the thirteenth book of the Variae, is included as an appendix. For a long while mistakenly revered as a saviour of classical civilization, in recent times more often dismissed as an anachronism, Cassiodorus emerges from this edition of the Institutions as an exceptional but nonetheless representative exponent of the learned Christian culture of later Latin Antiquity. The work will be of interest to historians of the late Roman empire and the early Christian church, medievalists, and students of the classical tradition."-- Publisher description.

Author : Cassiodorus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520389700

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The Variae by Cassiodorus Pdf

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.

Author : G. W. H. Lampe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1975-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521290171

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The Cambridge History of the Bible: Volume 2, The West from the Fathers to the Reformation by G. W. H. Lampe Pdf

The study of the Bible in the West, from Jerome and the Fathers to the time of Erasmus.

Author : William M. Johnston
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1579580904

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Encyclopedia of Monasticism: A-L by William M. Johnston Pdf

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Marijana Vuković
Publisher : FON
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Christian education
ISBN : 9788672448320

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Praestante Domino, auctores liberalium litterarum collegimus by Marijana Vuković Pdf

Author : Peter A. Clayton,Martin Price
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0415050367

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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Peter A. Clayton,Martin Price Pdf

First published in 1988. Can you name the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? Did they even exist? The Pharos at Alexandria survived into the Middle Ages, but the Hanging Gardens of Babylon exist only in references by ancient authors and the Colossus of Rhodes if too improbable to have existed in the form and place traditionally ascribed to it. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World sets the record straight, with an attractive account of each Wonder in the context in which it was built. The authors combine ancient sources with the results of modern scholarship and excavations to recreate a vivid picture of the Seven Wonders. All experts in their specialist fields, the contributors bring together facts and background that are remarkably difficult to find from any other single source and establish for the fist time the archaeology and location of each Wonder.

Author : P. R. Coleman-Norton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725255647

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Roman State & Christian Church Volume 1 by P. R. Coleman-Norton Pdf

This collection of legal documents affecting the Christian Church in the Roman Empire is the first its kind in any language. In time the monuments here translated cover the period from the foundation of the Church to the deposition of Romulus Augustulus, the last emperor in the West (476), and to the publication of the second (and only extant) edition of the Code of Justinian I, the most conspicuous champion of Caesaropapism in the East (534)—each terminus ad quem being an arbitrary, but a natural, limit. The character of the originals, which are mostly in either Greek or Latin, is strictly secular, that is, the documents emanate from the State’s officials, ordinarily the emperors, and thus expose the State’s attitude toward the Church. —From the Introduction

Author : Walter Goffart,Walter A. Goffart
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802007791

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After Rome's Fall by Walter Goffart,Walter A. Goffart Pdf

This collection of essays deals with a broad range of issues within the study, past and present, of the early Middle Ages. Subjects include war, power, ethnicity, gender, Charlemagne and Carolingian history. The book is largely concerned with reading the sources, both medieval and modern, and interpreting their narrators.

Author : Y. Hen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780230593640

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Roman Barbarians by Y. Hen Pdf

This study investigates the place of the royal court and the operation of patronage in several European kingdoms in the early Middle Ages. It seeks to identify the roots of later medieval developments, and especially of the Carolingian Renaissance, in the centuries immediately succeeding the period of Roman rule.

Author : Frank N. Magill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1071 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136593062

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The Middle Ages by Frank N. Magill Pdf

Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.

Author : G.R. Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134561797

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Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers by G.R. Evans Pdf

Focussing on individuals whose ideas shaped intellectual life between 400 and 1500, Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers is an accessible introduction to those religious, philosophical and political concepts central to the medieval worldview. Including such diverse figures as Bede and Wyclif, each entry presents a biographical outline, a list of works and a summary of their main theories, alongside suggestions for further reading. Chronologically arranged, and with an introductory essay which presents important themes in context, this volume is an invaluable reference tool for all students of Medieval Europe.

Author : Gregory Vall
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813235226

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Ecclesial Exegesis by Gregory Vall Pdf

There is broad support today for the idea that biblical scholarship ought to be informed by the faith of the Church and serve the life of the Church. In a word, it should be ecclesial. There is far less agreement, however, when one asks how this goal is to be achieved and what ecclesial exegesis ought to look like. In 1988, Joseph Ratzinger put forth his "Method C" proposal, calling for the development of a new exegetical and hermeneutical synthesis. This would be neither a retreat to the patristic-medieval approach (Method A) nor the continued hegemony of the historical-critical approach (Method B). The latter must be purified of its positivism through a transformational encounter with the former, so that the gifts of both might be released for the life of the Church. Such a synthesis, Ratzinger claimed, would require the philosophical, theological, exegetical, and hermeneutical work of "at least a whole generation" of scholars. Gregory Vall has devoted over thirty years to the development of ecclesial exegesis, and the present volume represents the mature fruit of his labor. Over against those who treat Dei Verbum as Vatican II's endorsement of the historical-critical method, he demonstrates that the dogmatic constitution actually points to something very much like Ratzinger's Method C. Employing a dialogic movement between the inductive-exegetical and the deductive-dogmatic, Vall offers nine studies that bring to the surface issues such as the relationship between Old Testament and New Testament, literal sense and spiritual sense, and Scripture and Tradition. While Vall brings theological knowledge and hermeneutical skill to the quest for Method C, he also provides a great deal of valuable exegesis of both testaments. Ecclesial Exegesis is not simply another book of theory. It demonstrates how Method C can be done.

Author : Senator Cassiodorus,Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus,Cassiodorus
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780853234364

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The Variae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator ... by Senator Cassiodorus,Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus,Cassiodorus Pdf

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

Author : Jonathan J. Arnold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107054400

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Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration by Jonathan J. Arnold Pdf

Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration offers a new interpretation of the fall of Rome and the "barbarian" successor state known as Ostrogothic Italy. Relying primarily on Italian textual and material evidence, Jonathan J. Arnold demonstrates that the subjects of the Ostrogothic kingdom viewed it as a revived Roman Empire and its king, Theoderic, as its emperor. Most accounts of Roman history end with the fall of Rome in 476 or see the Ostrogothic kingdom as a barbarous imitator. This book, however, challenges such views, placing the Theoderican epoch firmly within the continuum of Roman history.