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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
It's here at last: www.routledge.com/Portraits-of...
07.12.2025 00:50 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Interesting- article on Procopius' Buildings, however, I don't agree with the two main arguments.....
04.12.2025 07:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Including a review article by Zuckerman of Kruse and Kaldellis CUP volume
03.12.2025 10:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0old journal cover
New volume of Byzantion Vol. 94 (2024) poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?... @peeterspublishers.bsky.social
01.12.2025 01:53 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0For 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....
03.12.2025 00:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I suppose itβs 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-...
02.12.2025 02:05 β π 17 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Certainly, in my top ten articles of all time: openlibrary.org/books/OL3839...
25.11.2025 08:14 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0New 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
17.11.2025 15:02 β π 10 π 8 π¬ 0 π 1My recent on-line discussion with my friend, the writer Adrian Goldsworthy (75 mins.), www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kht...
05.11.2025 12:58 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1Also includes an article on Procopius' characterization of Belisarius by Christopher Lillington-Martin
06.11.2025 10:03 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New volume of Classica Cracoviensia Vol. 28 (2025) journals.akademicka.pl/cc/issue/vie... #openaccess @mikeaztec.bsky.social
05.11.2025 17:03 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Honorius feeding wee "Roma"
01.11.2025 09:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Some 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 π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I love Halloween...but a bit sad this year since I'm down to one child for trick-or-treating
30.10.2025 09:55 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0When 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'
27.10.2025 07:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Can I get an update on this takeπ
26.10.2025 12:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0First 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.
Not yet but here is his new email: "Jonathan Wild" <jonathanwild8@gmail.com>
16.10.2025 11:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Jonathan Wild, History, philosophy, and poetry in the Histories of Agathias of Myrina - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
14.10.2025 05:57 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It occurred to me that MAGA isnβt 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 50βs: cool Americans vs. the miserable rest!
They hate our freedoms!
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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