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The Soldier's Life: Martial Virtues and Manly Romanitas in the Early Byzantine Empire
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This monograph examines the various ways martial virtues and images of the soldier’s life shaped early Byzantine cultural ideals of masculinity. It contends that in many of the visual and literary sources from the fourth to the seventh centuries CE, conceptualisations of the soldier’s life and the ideal manly life were often the same

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Release dateDec 12, 2016
The Soldier's Life: Martial Virtues and Manly Romanitas in the Early Byzantine Empire

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    The Soldier's Life: Martial Virtues and Manly Romanitas in the Early Byzantine Empire
    The Soldier's Life: Martial Virtues and Manly Romanitas in the Early Byzantine Empire

    This monograph examines the various ways martial virtues and images of the soldier’s life shaped early Byzantine cultural ideals of masculinity. It contends that in many of the visual and literary sources from the fourth to the seventh centuries CE, conceptualisations of the soldier’s life and the ideal manly life were often the same

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Michael Edward Stewart

Michael Edward Stewart is an honorary Fellow in the school of History and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland. His research focuses on issues of culture, gender, and identity in Late Antiquity. He has published a number of articles on these themes. His most recent paper, "The Danger of the Soft Life: Manly and Unmanly Romans in Procopius' Gothic Wars" will appear in the Journal of Late Antiquity in 2017.

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