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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 .. more

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 1h
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-...
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...
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 6d
Certainly, in my top ten articles of all time: openlibrary.org/books/OL3839...
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
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 8d
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Το Βυζάντιο ως ρωμαϊκό, ελληνικό και χριστιανικό|Byzantina Symmeikta
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 10d
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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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Reposted by Charles West, Michael Stewart, Andrew Jacobs

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 14d
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
Volume 9 Issue 4 | Studies in Late Antiquity | University of California Press
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 25d
Also includes an article on Procopius' characterization of Belisarius by Christopher Lillington-Martin

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 26d
New volume of Classica Cracoviensia Vol. 28 (2025) journals.akademicka.pl/cc/issue/vie... #openaccess @mikeaztec.bsky.social

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Geoffrey Greatrex @otavano.bsky.social · 26d
My recent on-line discussion with my friend, the writer Adrian Goldsworthy (75 mins.), www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kht...
Geoffrey Greatrex - Procopius, Justinian and Belisarius
YouTube video by Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Nov 1
Honorius feeding wee "Roma"

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Nov 1
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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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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Nov 1
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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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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 31
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....
Malalas as Historian of His Times (on O. Gengler and M. Meier, edd., Johannes Malalas: Der Chronist als Zeithistoriker) | Histos
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 30
I love Halloween...but a bit sad this year since I'm down to one child for trick-or-treating

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 27
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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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 26
Can I get an update on this take😁

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 17
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Norms of Violence in Byzantine Civil Wars (976 – 1081)|Byzantina Symmeikta
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 17
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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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 16
Not yet but here is his new email: "Jonathan Wild" <[email protected]>

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 14
Jonathan Wild, History, philosophy, and poetry in the Histories of Agathias of Myrina - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
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 ...
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 13
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Dennis Trout, Sept. 24, 1953 — Oct. 6, 2025
Dennis Trout, age 72, talented educator and highly-regarded scholar, passed away in Columbia on Oct. 6.
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 8
This feels both unfair and unkind. Lee and Merle are brilliant scholars—even if I don’t agree with all of their positions on the Bubonic Plague, I certainly don’t begrudge them a grant. We should all take a step back and consider that what we say here can have real consequences for others.

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 7
Devastating news about Dennis. As a tribute here is a link to his magisterial piece: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
POETS AND READERS IN SEVENTH-CENTURY ROME: POPE HONORIUS, LUCRETIUS, AND THE DOORS OF ST. PETER'S | Traditio | Cambridge Core
POETS AND READERS IN SEVENTH-CENTURY ROME: POPE HONORIUS, LUCRETIUS, AND THE DOORS OF ST. PETER'S - Volume 75
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 7
No, its Dorothea Schaefter, though Michael's editing my other one on marriage and alliance

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 6
Yes, it was a thorough and positive review...though I suspect there was a slight dig at me in his discussion of Rozycki's chapter!

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 6
Having now heard from my new series editor @ Routledge (who took over from the original editor at AUP), I’m pleased to share that, Portraits of Generalship & Authority in the Age of Justinian and Beyond, is on track and currently scheduled for publication in early 2026.

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 6
A new article by Anthony Kaldellis: www.academia.edu/144320605/_A...
‘Authorship and Intolerance in Late Antiquity,’ Porphyra 30 (2024 [2025]) 11-31.
‘Authorship and Intolerance in Late Antiquity,’ Porphyra 30 (2024 [2025]) 11-31.
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 6
As my former country falls ever further into despotism and now what I feel is irreversible decline, I am facing the real possibility that I may never set foot there again, which is both painful and gratifying...

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 6
Interesting, considering our differences over methodology, that Rance echoes many of my thoughts found in my original review of an earlier version of the manuscript....

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Oct 6
Rance on @conorwhately.bsky.social : www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/in...
ByzRev 07.2025.064: Conor Whately (ed.), Military Literature in the Medieval Roman World and Beyond: (Reading Medieval Sources 8). Leiden: Brill 2024. | The Byzantine Review
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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · Oct 6
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!