Rappists
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Rappists, German religious communist sect, founded by George Rapp (1757–1847), who led his followers to settle in American communities. The most prominent of these were the
Harmony Society and
New Harmony.
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Cassiodorus, Jordanes, and the History of the Goths: Studies in a Migration Myth.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; Cassiodorus, Jordanes, and the History ole the Goths: Studies in a Migration...known as the Getica, and of the lost history of the Goths written by Cassiodorus upon which Jordanes's work was based. The principal aim of the book...
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CAREER OPTIONS FOR ASPIRING BRITISH ARCHITECTS WERE AT AN ALL-TIME LOW
Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal; 8/25/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...fusion of east and west was inevitable. Cassiodorus' early sixth-century letters - the...from Vitruvius' technical manual. Cassiodorus, the Roman statesman who served under...to express our thoughts on paper,' Cassiodorus continues.'The builder of walls...
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Hierarchy, Prophecy, and the Angelomorphic Spirit: A Contribution to the Study of the Book of Revelation's Wirkungsgeschichte
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Hypotyposeis.11 It is not dear whether Cassiodorus, who commissioned a Latin translation...are fortunate, however, to possess Cassiodorus's commentary on Revelation, contained...Complexiones. To the degree that passages in Cassiodorus's commentary reflect the theology...
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Goths and Romans: 332-489.
Magazine article from: The Historian; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...following the cue of his principal source, Cassiodorus' lost history of the Goths. Enough of Cassiodorus' work is known to suggest that his intention...century to the early history of the Goths, Cassiodorus created a picture of Visigothic and Ostrogothic...
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Eugene McCarthy, R.I.P.(EDITORIALS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 12/16/2005; 700+ words
; ...wrote. Political counseling began with Cassiodorus, adviser of sorts to Emperor Theodoric...Jimmy Carter's secretary of state. "Cassiodorus's time of public service ended about...the Gothic Empire fell apart. Hail Cassiodorus. Hail Morris." Only a wise and thoughtful...
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History for Sale: Why Not?
Magazine article from: Freeman; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...example, Olson says, in the sixth century Cassiodorus finished his career as a government official...have survived to this day because of Cassiodorus's efforts. "It is our intention," Cassiodorus wrote shortly before his death, "to...
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Italia ascetica atque monastica: Das Asketen- und Monchtum in Italien von den Anfangen bis zur Zeit der Langobarden (ca. 150/250-604)
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...name docketed. Obvious figures loom large (Eugippius, Cassiodorus), but fragments have been assiduously collected as well...pervasive influence of his books both directly (Benedict, Cassiodorus, and Gregory the Great were all smitten with him) and indirectly...
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Goffart, Walter, Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Parergon; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Goths based on a vastly longer and now lost original by Cassiodorus. Goffart proposes that the story of primeval Gothic migration from Scandinavia, widely thought to reflect Cassiodorus's reporting of the Goth's oral traditions, is instead...
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Emperor, Prefects and Kings: The Roman West, 395-565.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...start. Turning to Part III, Barnwell's suggestion that Cassiodorus "could have fabricated a career structure for himself in...Classical Folia, 25 [1971]). As a result Barnwell rejects Cassiodorus's work, especially his Variae as sources for the Ostrogothic...
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Moses and the princess: Josephus' 'Antiquitates Judaicae' and the chansons de geste.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...4) In the Antiquitates, the Latin translation of which was originally made in the sixth century at the instigation of Cassiodorus,(5) Josephus gives an account of the years Moses spent in Egypt before - and here Josephus differs fundamentally from...
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Cassiodorus Senator, Flavius Magnus Aurelius
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Cassiodorus Senator, Flavius Magnus Aurelius...preservation and dissemination of knowledge . Cassiodorus ’ contributions to the development...family from the town of Scylacium, Cassiodorus, like his father, served the Ostrogoth...
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Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus The Roman statesman and author Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (ca. 480-ca. 575) exerted...period of Ostrogothic rule in Italy. Cassiodorus was born on his family's estate at Scyllacium...
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Cassiodorus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cassiodorus (Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator) , c.485-c.585, Roman statesman and author...copying old manuscripts, which were thus preserved. Among Cassiodorus's works were his History of the Goths, preserved in the...
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Medieval Latin literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...consolatione philosophiae of Boethius was the last great work of classical Latin and that Boethius' younger contemporary Cassiodorus was the first notable figure of medieval literature (though he wrote in classical form). However, the transition was...
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Jordanes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jordanes , fl. 6th cent., historian of the Ostrogoths, b. in the lower Danube region. His History of the Goths, an abridgment of the lost work of Cassiodorus , is the only extant source for Ostrogothic history and one of the few works written in Vulgar Latin.
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