Michael Stewart

Dr Michael Edward Stewart completed his PhD at the University of Queensland in 2013. He is the author of The Soldier’s Life: Martial Virtues and Manly Romanitas in the Early Byzantine Empire (2017) and Masculinity, Identity, and Power Politics in the Age of Justinian: A Study of Procopius (Amsterdam University Press, 2020; reprinted by Routledge, 2025). He co-edited, with David Alan Parnell and Conor Whately, The Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium (2022).

His most recent book is Portraits of Generalship and Authority in the Age of Justinian (Routledge, 2026). His forthcoming volume, Marriage, Alliance, and Social Networks in the Age of Theodora and Justinian, is under contract with Routledge. Dr Stewart has been an invited speaker at the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and at the University of Venice.

Over the past decade, he has published numerous book chapters and articles, as well as several pieces for wider audiences on the Late Roman and Byzantine army, the historian Procopius, eunuchs, the Arab conquests, and other aspects of Roman and Byzantine history. His popular work has appeared in publications such as Desperta Ferro, Medieval Warfare Magazine, Medieval World: Culture & Conflict, and Medievalists.net.

Dr Stewart has been interviewed on multiple platforms, including New Books Network and Agnus.net. He has peer-reviewed book manuscripts for Palgrave Macmillan, Brill, Bloomsbury, and Routledge, as well as journal articles for Byzantion, Classica Cracoviensia, Studies in Late Antiquity, Eos, Revista de Historia, Journal of Ancient Civilizations, and the Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies.