Description:
This monograph examines the various ways martial virtues and images of the soldier's life shaped early Byzantine cultural ideals of masculinity.
Brief description: Michael Edward Stewart is an honorary Fellow in the school of History and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland. His research focuses on issues of culture, gender, and identity in Late Antiquity. He has published a number of articles on these themes. His most recent paper, "The Danger of the Soft Life: Manly and Unmanly Romans in Procopius' Gothic Wars" will appear in the Journal of Late Antiquity in 2017.