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Author Stewart, Michael Edward, author.

Title Masculinity, identity, and power politics in the age of Justinian : a study of Procopius / Michael Edward Stewart.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Translations, Sources, and Names -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Will the Real Procopius Please Stand Up -- 3. The Danger of the Soft Life -- 4. Courage, Fear, and Generalship in the Vandal War -- 5. Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Eunuchs in a Changing World -- Introduction -- 6. Killing Justinian -- 7. Totila: Hero or Trope? -- Conclusion: All Quiet on the Italian Front -- Bibliography -- Chronology -- Index
Summary 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 subtler ways in which gender coloured Procopius' most significant work, the Wars, have received far less attention. This monograph examines how gender shaped the presentation of not only key personalities such as the seminal power-couples Theodora/ Justinian and Antonina/ Belisarius, but also the Persians, Vandals, Goths, Eastern Romans, and Italo-Romans, in both the Wars and the Secret History. By analysing the purpose and rationale behind Procopius' gendered depictions and ethnicizing worldview, this investigation unpicks his knotty agenda. Despite Procopius's reliance on classical antecedents, the gendered discourse that undergirds both texts under investigation must be understood within the broader context of contemporary political debates at a time when control of Italy and North Africa from Constantinople was contested.
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Subject Procopius -- Criticism and interpretation.
Procopius.
Criticism and interpretation.
Byzantine Empire -- History -- Justinian I, 527-565 -- Historiography.
Historians -- Greece.
Historians.
Greece.
Chronological Term 527-565
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
ISBN 9789048540259 (electronic book)
9048540259 (electronic book)
9789462988231 (hardcover)
9462988234 (hardcover)