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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.

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This book provides a new interpretation of the fall of the Roman Empire and the 'barbarian' kingdom known conventionally as Ostrogothic Italy. Relying primarily on Italian textual and material evidence, and in particular the works of Cassiodorus and Ennodius, Jonathan J. Arnold argues that contemporary Italo-Romans viewed the Ostrogothic kingdom as the Western Roman Empire and its 'barbarian' king, Theoderic (r.489/93-526), as its emperor. Investigating conceptions of Romanness, Arnold explains how the Roman past, both immediate and distant, allowed Theoderic and his Goths to find acceptance in Italy as Romans, with roles essential to the Empire's perceived recovery. Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration demonstrates how Theoderic's careful attention to imperial traditions, good governance, and reconquest followed by the re-Romanization of lost imperial territories contributed to contemporary sentiments of imperial resurgence and a golden age. There was no need for Justinian to restore the Western Empire: Theoderic had already done so.

Ostrogoths --- Goths --- Restorations, Political --- Imperialism --- Restaurations (Politique) --- Impérialisme --- History --- Biography --- Kings and rulers --- Histoire --- Biographie --- Rois et souverains --- Theodoric, --- Italy --- Rome --- Italie --- History. --- Restauration. --- Ancient --- General. --- General --- bisacsh. --- Theoderich, --- Römisches Reich. --- Impérialisme --- Ethnology --- Germanic peoples --- Austro-Gothi --- Austro-Goths --- Austrogothi --- Austrogoths --- East Goths --- Eastern Goths --- Ostgoths --- Ostro-Gothi --- Ostro-Goths --- Ostrogothi --- Tetricus, --- Theodoric the Great, --- Theodericus, --- Teoderico, --- Theoderic, --- Teodorico, --- Teoderyk, --- Dietrich, --- Biography. --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Political restorations