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Michael Edward Stewart

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Loves: Hiking/gym/baseball cards/Stout/ Research Fellow https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/16690 Author-The Soldier's Life; AUP book on Procopius. Routledge books on Generalship in the Age of Justinian/ Identity in Byzantium/Marriage & Alliance

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Portraits of Generalship and Authority in the Age of Justinian Warfare was a defining feature of the reign of the Roman Emperor Justinian (r. 527–565). His extensive military campaigns spanned multiple fronts, including conflicts in the East against the Persians ...

It's here at last: www.routledge.com/Portraits-of...

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Interesting- article on Procopius' Buildings, however, I don't agree with the two main arguments.....

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Including a review article by Zuckerman of Kruse and Kaldellis CUP volume

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New volume of Byzantion Vol. 94 (2024) poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?... @peeterspublishers.bsky.social

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For my new Routledge book, I'm investigating the early days of Justinian and Theodora's relationship. Yes, it has been combed through extensively by Croke/Pazdernik/Potter among others but my angle is that it was Justin rather than Euphemia who was the primary early obstacle to their marriage....

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Masculinity, Identity, and Power Politics in the Age of Justinian: A Study of Procopius A generation of historians has been captivated by the notorious views on gender found in the mid-sixth century Secret History by the Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea. Yet the notable but subt...

I suppose it’s publication day: my 2020 book on Procopius, originally published by Amsterdam University Press, has now been reissued by Routledge and officially relaunched today in paperback, digital, and hardback formats: www.routledge.com/Masculinity-...

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Theodora the Believing Queen by Susan Ashbrook Harvey | Open Library Theodora the Believing Queen by Susan Ashbrook Harvey, 2011, Gorgias Press, LLC edition, in English

Certainly, in my top ten articles of all time: openlibrary.org/books/OL3839...

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΀ο Βυ΢άντιο ως ΟΟ‰ΞΌΞ±ΟŠΞΊΟŒ, Ρλληνικό ΞΊΞ±ΞΉ Ο‡ΟΞΉΟƒΟ„ΞΉΞ±Ξ½ΞΉΞΊΟŒ|Byzantina Symmeikta

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Author Spotlight: Michael Stewart This week, we feature a recurring author in our "Author Spotlight" - Dr. Michael Edward Stewart. He is an honorary Fellow in the School of History and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queens...

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Volume 9 Issue 4 | Studies in Late Antiquity | University of California Press

New issue of Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 9, No. 4 (2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/4 Paleoscience and the Study of Late Antiquity @ucpress.bsky.social @janetekay.bsky.social @shakenbeck.bsky.social @r-c-jackson.bsky.social

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Geoffrey Greatrex - Procopius, Justinian and Belisarius
YouTube video by Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist Geoffrey Greatrex - Procopius, Justinian and Belisarius

My recent on-line discussion with my friend, the writer Adrian Goldsworthy (75 mins.), www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kht...

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Also includes an article on Procopius' characterization of Belisarius by Christopher Lillington-Martin

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New volume of Classica Cracoviensia Vol. 28 (2025) journals.akademicka.pl/cc/issue/vie... #openaccess @mikeaztec.bsky.social

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Honorius feeding wee "Roma"

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Caillan Davenport/Meaghan McEvoy (eds.): The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity (2023) Review of: Caillan Davenport/Meaghan McEvoy (eds.): The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press 2023. Reviewed by: Jeroen W. P. Wijnendaele,...

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25.10.49 Whately, Conor, ed. Military Literature in the Medieval Roman World and Beyond. | The Medieval Review

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Malalas as Historian of His Times (on O. Gengler and M. Meier, edd., Johannes Malalas: Der Chronist als Zeithistoriker) | Histos

Some may know that I mostly write about Procopius and Agathias, but here is a review essay I wrote for Histos on another of my favourite sixth-century authors John Malalas: histos.org/index.php/hi....

31.10.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love Halloween...but a bit sad this year since I'm down to one child for trick-or-treating

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When they are playing well, like now, they can be a top 25 team along the same lines of Boise State that could make the college playoff, so not too low of a ceiling, especially when one considers the declining prestige of a program like UCLA which is struggling in the revamped 'Big 10'

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Can I get an update on this take😁

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Norms of Violence in Byzantine Civil Wars (976 – 1081)|Byzantina Symmeikta

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First proofs day! Coming soon an article on the Gothic Queen Matasuintha and Justinian's cousin Germanus, that I really enjoyed researching and writing:
Michael Edward Stewart (2025). Two weddings and a funeral: marriage and death in the house of Germanus. Classica Cracoviensia 28, pp. 263-296.

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Not yet but here is his new email: "Jonathan Wild" <jonathanwild8@gmail.com>

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History, philosophy, and poetry in the Histories of Agathias of Myrina - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive This thesis is a study of the dynamic roles of history, philosophy, and poetry in the Histories of Agathias of Myrina. It is especially concerned with Agathias’ numerous philosophical digressions and ...

Jonathan Wild, History, philosophy, and poetry in the Histories of Agathias of Myrina - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

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Dennis Trout, Sept. 24, 1953 β€” Oct. 6, 2025 Dennis Trout, age 72, talented educator and highly-regarded scholar, passed away in Columbia on Oct. 6.

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It occurred to me that MAGA isn’t actually a nostalgia for Greatness, rather a longing for American Exceptionalism. They are mad that the rest of the world has good movies & good music & technology too. They want it to be like the 50’s: cool Americans vs. the miserable rest!

They hate our freedoms!

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Discount code for J. Ma, POLIS, at press.princeton.edu
30% with code P325

Discount code for J. Ma, POLIS, at press.princeton.edu 30% with code P325

Might as well post this hereβ€” I *think* it's still vald

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