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Michael Edward Stewart

The Soldier's Life

Martial Virtues and Manly Romanitas in the Early Byzantine Empire

Buch

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. By taking this stance, the book challenges the view found in many recent studies on Late Roman and early Byzantine masculinity that suggest a Christian ideal of manliness based on extreme ascetic virtues and pacifism had superseded militarism and courage as the dominant component of hegemonic masculine ideology.… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-9956717-0-6
  • EAN: 9780995671706
  • Produktnummer: 22327427
  • Verlag: Kismet Press LLP
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 406 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.1 cm 586 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 586

Über den Autor


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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