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Cassiodorus: Institutions of Divine and Secular Learning

Traducere de James W. Halporn, Mark Vessey
en Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 2004
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 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. 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 savior 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780853239987
ISBN-10: 0853239983
Pagini: 202
Ilustrații: Illustrations, 1 map
Dimensiuni: 211 x 147 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:Third
Editura: Liverpool University Press
Colecția Liverpool University Press

Notă biografică

James W. Halporn is Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Indiana University and is currently Associate in Classics, Harvard University.  He edited Cassiodorus' De anima for the Corpus Christianorum.  He has written extensively on Cassiodorus and on Greek and Latin literature.
 
Mark Vessey is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia and holder of a Canada Research Chair in Literature/Christianity and Culture.  He is co-editor of The Limits of Ancient Christianity: Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R.A. Markus and of Holy Scripture Speaks: The Production and Reception of Erasmus' Paraphrases on the New Testament.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
References and Abbreviations
 
INTRODUCTION
   1.  Epigraph; Two Pen-Portraits of 'Cassiodorus'
   2.  The Writer, His Life and Works On the Soul
   3.  Institutions of Divine and Secular Learning
           Genesis and Models
           Composition and Contents
               Book 1: The Bible and Christian Authors
               Book 2: The Liberal Arts
           Reception and Historical Significance
    4.  Epilogue
 
INSTITUTIONS OF DIVINE AND SECULAR LEARNING
 
ON THE SOUL
 
Bibliography
Index