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1. Looking Glass Or Distorting Mirror? Literature As A Historical Source 1. Looking Glass Or Distorting Mirror? Literature As A Historical Source
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2. Testimony Or Representation? Royal Correspondence In Cassiodorus 2. Testimony Or Representation? Royal Correspondence In Cassiodorus
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2 Theoderic In The Eyes Of Contemporaries
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Published:July 2023
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This chapter explores writings about Theoderic the Great from his time. It first considers literature as a historic source and the challenges that come with using sources whose context with which modern scholars are no longer familiar. More written sources survive for Theoderic and his Goths than for any other leader or state of his time, excepting the Roman Empire itself. Among these written sources, it is texts designated “literature” according to contemporary understanding that this chapter focuses on for their length and informational value. They are linguistic works of art that are influenced by both formal conventions and the individual creative will of their authors. After examining the writings of the authors Ennodius, Anonymus, and Procopius, the chapter turns inward from these authors' outside perspectives to more personal testimonies of Theoderic. Thus, it takes a look at texts written by a man who held several high offices under Theoderic and also played an important political part under his first successors—Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator.
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