Kings and Kinglets
Michael Kulikowski: Cassiodorus, 12 August 2021
The Selected Letters of Cassiodorus: A Sixth-Century Sourcebook
translated and edited by M. Shane Bjornlie.
California, 328 pp., £25, September 2020,978 0 520 29734 0 Show More
translated and edited by M. Shane Bjornlie.
California, 328 pp., £25, September 2020,
“... though reading any quantity of late Roman officialese requires a certain masochism, which M. Shane Bjornlie’s translations are literal enough to convey. That said, we should remember that what these letters’ original recipients were seeing was a couple of hundred lines of elegantly mannered prose that flattered their pretensions and folded them ... ”
