Michael Edward Stewart
@mikeaztec.bsky.social
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
Author-The Soldier's Life; AUP book on Procopius. Routledge books on Generalship in the Age of Justinian/ Identity in Byzantium/Marriage & Alliance
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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December 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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-...
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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November 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Certainly, in my top ten articles of all time: openlibrary.org/books/OL3839...
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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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November 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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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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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November 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My recent on-line discussion with my friend, the writer Adrian Goldsworthy (75 mins.), www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kht...
Reposted by Michael Edward Stewart
New volume of Classica Cracoviensia Vol. 28 (2025) journals.akademicka.pl/cc/issue/vie... #openaccess @mikeaztec.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
New volume of Classica Cracoviensia Vol. 28 (2025) journals.akademicka.pl/cc/issue/vie... #openaccess @mikeaztec.bsky.social
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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October 31, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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....
I love Halloween...but a bit sad this year since I'm down to one child for trick-or-treating
October 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I love Halloween...but a bit sad this year since I'm down to one child for trick-or-treating
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.
Michael Edward Stewart (2025). Two weddings and a funeral: marriage and death in the house of Germanus. Classica Cracoviensia 28, pp. 263-296.
October 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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.
Michael Edward Stewart (2025). Two weddings and a funeral: marriage and death in the house of Germanus. Classica Cracoviensia 28, pp. 263-296.
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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October 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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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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!
They hate our freedoms!
October 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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!
They hate our freedoms!
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Might as well post this here— I *think* it's still vald
November 24, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Might as well post this here— I *think* it's still vald
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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October 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Devastating news about Dennis. As a tribute here is a link to his magisterial piece: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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.
October 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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.
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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October 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A new article by Anthony Kaldellis: www.academia.edu/144320605/_A...
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...
October 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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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Final words by Jane Goodall.
Powerful stuff.
Powerful stuff.
Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E
October 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Final words by Jane Goodall.
Powerful stuff.
Powerful stuff.
Well, its official, my Amsterdam University Press book is now a Routledge publication, good news is that there will be an affordable paperback version available: 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...
www.routledge.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Well, its official, my Amsterdam University Press book is now a Routledge publication, good news is that there will be an affordable paperback version available: www.routledge.com/Masculinity-...