Link: http://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/cassiodorus.html
Project Status: Complete
Resources on the life and work of Cassiodorus, including full text of James J. O’Donnell’s Cassiodorus (UC-Berkeley, 1979), as well as Cassiodorus’ De anima, Institutiones books 1 and 2, and Variae. Also included are the Instituta of Junillus, Quaestor at Constantinople and Cassiodorus’ contemporary, and Jordanes’ Getica, an abridged version of Cassiodorus’ lost Gothic History.
* National History Day Selected Resource *
Resource details:
Resource Type: Teaching Resources, Text: Medieval, Text: Modern
License: Must provide credit, No Fee
Modern Language: English
Language of Modern Translation: English
Medieval content details:
Dates: 500 - 600
Subject: Byzantium, Conversion, Early Germanic Peoples, History, Royalty, Monarchs, War
Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Chronicles, Annals, Didactic, Doctrinal, Letters, Petitions, Literature, Religious Texts, Textual Evidence
Geopolitical Region: Byzantium, Europe, Italy, Middle East
Original Language: Latin
English translations of Junillus' Instituta and Jordanes' Getica. Cassiodorus' texts are in Latin only.
Medieval Creators: Jordanes, Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius
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