Masculinity, Identity, and Power Politics in the Age of Justinian

Informationen zum Autor Michael Edward Stewart (honorary Research Fellow, University of Queensland) researches issues of culture, gender, and identity in Late Antiquity. He is the author of Masculinity, Identity, and the Rhetoric of Power Politics in the Age of Justinian (Amsterdam University Press, 2020). Klappentext Historians has been captivated by the notorious views on gender in the mid-6th century Secret History by the Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea. But Procopius' most significant work, the Wars, has received far less attention. This monograph examines how gender shaped the presentation of not only key personalities but also the Persians, Vandals, Goths, Eastern Romans, and Italo-Romans. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements, A Note on Translations, Sources, and Names, Preface, I Finding Procopius, 1. Introduction, 2. Will the Real Procopius Please Stand Up, Procopius' Oeuvre, Historiographical Debates, A Christian Procopius, Dates, Cistern or Safety Net?, II The Contest, 3. The Danger of the Soft Life, Rhetoric and Reality, A Soft Empire, Vita Militaris, Romans and Goths, Aeneas' Ship, 4. Courage, Fear, and Generalship in the Vandal War, Fifth-century Roman Failures, The Launch, Tricamarum, 5. Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Eunuchs in a Changing World, The Blame Game, Solomon, Narses: The Manly Eunuch, Martial Manliness, Draining Belisarius' andreia, Brave New World, III Chaos Encroaching, 6. Killing Justinian, Artabanes: Slayer of Tyrants, Theodora Steps In, The Plot, 7. Totila: Hero or Trope?, Order out of Chaos, Standing up to Totila, Last Dance, Conclusion: All Quiet on the Italian Front, Bibliography, Primary Sources, Secondary Sources, Index, Chronology

Klappentext
Historians has been captivated by the notorious views on gender in the mid-6th century Secret History by the Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea. But Procopius' most significant work, the Wars, has received far less attention. This monograph examines how gender shaped the presentation of not only key personalities but also the Persians, Vandals, Goths, Eastern Romans, and Italo-Romans.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements, A Note on Translations, Sources, and Names, Preface, I Finding Procopius, 1. Introduction, 2. Will the Real Procopius Please Stand Up, Procopius' Oeuvre, Historiographical Debates, A Christian Procopius, Dates, Cistern or Safety Net?, II The Contest, 3. The Danger of the Soft Life, Rhetoric and Reality, A Soft Empire, Vita Militaris, Romans and Goths, Aeneas' Ship, 4. Courage, Fear, and Generalship in the Vandal War, Fifth-century Roman Failures, The Launch, Tricamarum, 5. Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Eunuchs in a Changing World, The Blame Game, Solomon, Narses: The Manly Eunuch, Martial Manliness, Draining Belisarius' andreia, Brave New World, III Chaos Encroaching, 6. Killing Justinian, Artabanes: Slayer of Tyrants, Theodora Steps In, The Plot, 7. Totila: Hero or Trope?, Order out of Chaos, Standing up to Totila, Last Dance, Conclusion: All Quiet on the Italian Front, Bibliography, Primary Sources, Secondary Sources, Index, Chronology

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