The Value and Influence of Cassiodorus' Ecclesiastical History
M. L. W. Laistner
Most students of history or literature have had at some time the experience encountering statements generalizations made by a writer an earlier generation and then finding them repeated without question his successors working in same field inquiry. What is more, if dissentient voices been raised, they often overlooked disregarded. The prevailing estimate Cassiodorus' Ecclesiastical History affords excellent example manner which erroneous opinions ad nauseam from one to next, although more than thirty years passed since two scholars first rank, Bidez Parmentier, provided least evidence needed for just evaluation book. There are essential questions seem call fresh investigation. concerned with value accuracy compilation, second its diffusion during Middle Ages popularity as work reference.
Harvard Theological Review