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Michael Edward Stewart
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Avid Hiker, gym junkie, baseball card collector, & lover of Stout Honorary Research Fellow @University of Queensland Author-The Soldier's Life, Marriage & Alliance; AUP books on Procopius & Generalship; Routledge: Editor Handbook on Identity in Byzantium
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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · Nov 24
Might as well post this here— I *think* it's still vald
Discount code for J. Ma, POLIS, at press.princeton.edu 30% with code P325
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 23h
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 · 1d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 2d
Final words by Jane Goodall.
Powerful stuff.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 3d
Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
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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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 6d
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 6d
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...
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 7d
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
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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 12d
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 · 11d
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...
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 21d
Just ordered a copy for the UQ Library👍Can't wait to read it!
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 22d
Perhaps a sign that I'm on the cusp of being a senior rather than mid-career academic.???
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 23d
New issue of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Vol. 49, No. 2 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @universitypress.cambridge.org
journal cover
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Ruth Karras @rmkarras.bsky.social · 23d
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 · 23d
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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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 24d
...a lot of $$$ on that table
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Michael Edward Stewart @mikeaztec.bsky.social · 28d
In Sydney Botanical gardens one of my happy places. Showing it to my 13-year-old daughter for her birthday.
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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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