Michael Stewart

Gebundenes Buch

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

A Study of Procopius

Beschreibung

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.

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9789462988231
• ISBN-10: 9462988234
• Artikelnr.: 59511549