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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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

www.cambridge.org

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

A new article by Anthony Kaldellis: www.academia.edu/144320605/_A...

‘Authorship and Intolerance in Late Antiquity,’ Porphyra 30 (2024 [2025]) 11-31.

www.academia.edu

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 6d

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...

Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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

www.uni-muenster.de

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 6d

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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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 11d

Well It has happened my AUP book on Procopius will soon be available as a paper back published by Routledge: 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

Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 15d

books.openedition.org/pup/58024

Eunuques de guerre à Byzance

L’implication des eunuques dans la guerre et les armées ainsi que la construction d’une nouvelle réalité que nous appelons les « eunuques de guerre » dont l’implication dans la guerre et les capacités...

books.openedition.org

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 16d

New from @EmpirePodUK
The History of Gaza Episode Three
Byzantine Gaza: The Rise of Christianity

@anitaanand.bsky.social &I are joined by the great Professor Peter Sarris to discuss Byzantine Gaza

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 25d

Just ordered a copy for the UQ Library👍Can't wait to read it!

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 26d

Perhaps a sign that I'm on the cusp of being a senior rather than mid-career academic.???

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 26d

For those interested, my review of this Perisanidi's CUP book appeared today for the Medieval Review scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...

25.09.11 Perisanidi, Maroula. Masculinity in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200: Scholars, Clerics, and Violence. | The Medieval Review

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 27d

New issue of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Vol. 49, No. 2 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Ruth Karras @rmkarras.bsky.social · 27d

Hardcopy is here!

Cover of the Journal of Medieval History, special issue for 50th anniversary

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 28d

...a lot of $$$ on that table

Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Sep 10

In Sydney Botanical gardens one of my happy places. Showing it to my 13-year-old daughter for her birthday.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · Sep 7

Pedagogical mice are _always_ a good idea.

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Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social · Aug 22

Coming soon:

www.routledge.com/Ancient-Warf...

Ancient Warfare: The Basics

Ancient Warfare: The Basics offers an engaging introduction to warfare in the ancient Mediterranean World from the mythical Trojan War, through the rise of hoplites and conquests of Alexander the Grea...

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Aug 19

And second, Jaakkojuhani Peltonen's Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Viri Fortes in Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat | 7 | The Viri Fortes in Ammianus Marcell

This chapter examines Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae, composed in the fourth century ce, and the way it constructs martial masculinity as a version of

www.taylorfrancis.com

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Aug 19

First two members in my top 5 favourite articles/chapter of 2025: Brian Croke's Anastasius I, Justin I and Vitalian: the political appropriation of Archangel Michael www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

www.degruyterbrill.com

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Aug 14

Good news: my 12,000-word article dedicated to the memory of Dariusz Brodka, 'Two Weddings and a Funeral: Marriage and Death in the House of Germanus,' has passed peer review and will be published in Classica Cracoviensia 28 at the end of the year.

Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Aug 12

The sarcophagus of Seda, the eunuch chamberlain of the Gothic Rex Theoderic (r. 489/93–526), serves as a fitting reminder that by the sixth century, nothing signified imperial Roman authority more than possessing one’s own contingent of eunuchs.

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Aug 12

New Issue: online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article-...

The Church Controversies in Vandal AfricaA Spatial Perspective

This essay offers a reflection on the so-called Spatial Turn and spatial perspective in the study of the ancient world in general, and the methodology of creating a geographic database based on the No...

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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · Aug 10

I would add that, although he is often portrayed as a strong critic of Constantius II’s reliance on court eunuchs, he himself died surrounded by his own entourage of eunuchs who had accompanied him on his military campaign against the Persians.

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