Sacred texts of the secular: writing, hearing, and reading Cassiodorus' Variae

Barnish, S. J. B.

(2001)

Barnish, S. J. B. (2001) Sacred texts of the secular: writing, hearing, and reading Cassiodorus' Variae. Studia Patristica, 38

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From a study of the Variae of Cassiodorus, the use of letters and orations in social control in the late Roman and early middle ages is considered.

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Item TypeJournal Article
TitleSacred texts of the secular: writing, hearing, and reading Cassiodorus' Variae
AuthorsBarnish, S. J. B.
Uncontrolled KeywordsCassiodorus, Variae, letters, preaching, reading, literary forms, social control
DepartmentsFaculty of History and Social Science\History

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2. Cassiodorus, Variae, tr. S.J.B. Barnish (Liverpool, 1992), xx, xxv, xxixf.
3. cf. G. Henderson in The Age of Migrating Ideas, ed. R. Spearman & J. Higgitt (Edinburgh & Stroud, 1993), ch.9.
5. Cf. J.D. Harries, "The Roman Imperial Quaestor from Constantine to Theodosius II", JRS 78 (1988), 148-72, Law & Empire in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 1999), 42-7; T. Honor‚, Law in the Crisis of Empire, 379-455 AD (Oxford, 1998), 11-15.
6. Cf. Var. VI.5,
7. In the Acta Synhodorum Habitarum Romae (ed. Th. Mommsen, MGH AA XII), document 4, Praeceptio Regis, 5, Anagnosticum Regis,
8. R. Schlieben, Cassiodors Psalmenexegese (Tubingen, 1970), 38-41.
11. Prae.10; cf. Cassiod., Inst. I.xxx,
13. Cf. Schlieben, 187ff.
15. Cf. Barnish, xxiif.; M. Benner, The Emperor Says. Studies in the Rhetorical Style of Edicts of the Early Empire (Goteborg, 1975), 1-25.
17. Christianity & the Rhetoric of Empire (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1991), 79.
18.cf. B. Stock, Augustine the Reader (Cambridge, Mass. & London, 1996), 169, 188ff.
20. Cf. F. van der Meer, Augustine the Bishop (London, 1961), 391-7, ch.15. R. Wilken, John Chrysostom & the Jews (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1983), 105ff., and, in M. Cunningham & P. Allen (edd.), Preacher & Audience (Leiden, 1998), W. Mayer, 129-34, J. Barkhuizen, 189, 197f., Allen, 219f.
21. Cf. J. Reed, in Handbook of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period, 330 B.C. - A.D.400, ed. S. Porter (Leiden, 1997), ch.7; M. Wagner, "A Chapter in Byzantine Epistolography: the Letters of Theoderet of Cyrus", DOP 4 (1948), 120-81; S.T. Stower, Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Philadelphia, 1986), 94ff., 139.
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23. Basil of Caesarea (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1994), ch.5, esp. 164-89.
24. Cf. Barnish, xxxff.; Wagner, 134, n.40; A.F. Norman, intro. to Libanius, Autobiography & Selected Letters (Cambridge, Mass., 1992), I, 30f.
25. Cf. G. Vid‚n, The Roman Chancery Tradition: Studies in the Language of Codex Theodosianus and Cassiodorus' Variae (Goteborg, 1984), 61f., 74, 145.
27. cf. J. Lendon, Empire of Honour (Oxford, 1997).
32. Cf. John Lydus, De Magistratibus, II.29-30, Barnish, xxxi.
34. Cf. S. MacCormack, Art & Ceremony in Late Antiquity (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1981), 232f.[p.367]
35. Collectio Avellana, 34.2.
36. Symm., Rel. 21.2.
37. "The Preacher's Audience", JThS n.s.40 (1989), 503-11; cf. below, n.44.
38. Cf. P. Brown, Power & Persuasion in Late Antiquity (Madison, 1992), 103, 148ff., 152.
39. Prae. 16-17; Cicero, Orator, 69-101; Aug., De Doc. Chr., IV.27-58. cf. E. Auerbach, Literary Language and its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages (Princeton, 1993), 34f.
41. In M. Whitby (ed.), The Propaganda of Power: the Role of Panegyric in Late Antiquity (Leiden, 1998), 44;
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44. Basil of Caesarea, 164f.; cf. 42, n.68. Allen, "The Homilist and the Congregation: a Case-Study of Chrysostom's Homilies on Hebrews", Augustinianum 36 (1996), 398-421; Mayer, "Female Participation and the Late Fourth Century Preacher's Audience", ibid., 39 (1999), 139-47. D. Trout, Paulinus of Nola (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1999), 181f. A. Meredith, Preacher & Audience, 89-104,
48. "Town, Countryside, and the Christianisation of Italy in Cassiodorus' Variae", read at the Kalamazoo International Medieval Congress, 1999.
58. "Roman Responses to an Unstable World: Cassiodorus' Variae in Context", forthcoming in Vivarium in Context, ed. L. Cuppo Csaki (Medieval Institute Publications, Kalamazoo). cf Barnish S.J.B. "The Work of Cassiodorus after his Conversion", Latomus 48 (1989), 157-87, 176ff.

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