A revealing study of the Variae of Cassiodorus and the insight that the epistolary collection can provide into sixth-century Italy.

The Variae of Cassiodorus have long been valued as an epistolary collection offering a window into political and cultural life in a so-called barbarian successo

What did it mean to be Roman after the fall of the western Roman empire in 476, and what were the implications of new formulations of Roman identity for the inh