How Long to Read Cassiodorus: Institutions of Divine and Secular Learnin

How Long Does it Take to Read Cassiodorus: Institutions of Divine and Secular Learnin?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 33 minutes to read Cassiodorus: Institutions of Divine and Secular Learnin by Cassiodorus

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Description

As a minister of the Ostrogothic regime in the time of Theoderic, Cassiodorus had as brilliant a political career as any Roman of the late empire. Around 538 CE he published a collection of his state letters under the title of Variae (TTH 12), and disappeared from the public record. Half a century later, dying at his country estate in Calabria, he left behind the exemplars for another world of texts: that of the Christian universe of Scripture, now encompassing the Seven Liberal Arts. The grand plan of this new dispensation is contained in the two books of his Institutions of Divine and Secular Learning, a work which would be excerpted and copied in monasteries throughout the Latin Middle Ages. The Institutions appears here in the first new English translation in more than fifty years. The treatise On the Soul, which was originally published as the thirteenth book of the Variae, is included as an appendix. For a long while mistakenly revered as a saviour of classical civilization, i

How long is Cassiodorus: Institutions of Divine and Secular Learnin?

Cassiodorus: Institutions of Divine and Secular Learnin by Cassiodorus is 326 pages long, and a total of 83,456 words.

This makes it 110% the length of the average book. It also has 102% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Cassiodorus: Institutions of Divine and Secular Learnin Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 36 minutes to read Cassiodorus: Institutions of Divine and Secular Learnin aloud.

What Reading Level is Cassiodorus: Institutions of Divine and Secular Learnin?

Cassiodorus: Institutions of Divine and Secular Learnin is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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