Michael Stewart

Dr Michael Edward Stewart completed his PhD at the University of Queensland in 2013. His first monograph, based on this work, The Soldier's Life: Martial Virtues and Manly Romanitas in the early Byzantine Empire was published in 2017. His second book, Masculinity, Identity, and Power-Politics in the Age of Justinian: A Study of Procopius was published in 2020 with Amsterdam University Press. He co-edited with David Alan Parnell and Conor Whately the Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium (Routledge) 2022.

Among his current and forthcoming projects are an edited volume for Amsterdam University Press, 12 Generals: Portraits of Generalship & Authority in the Age of Justinian (2025) and a monograph under contract for Routledge: Marriage, Alliance, and Social Networks in the Age of Theodora and Justinian. Dr. Stewart has been an invited speaker for the ICS (School of Advanced Studies University of London) and at the University of Venice.

In the past decade he has published several articles for wider audiences on the Late Roman army, the historian Procopius, the Arab conquests and other periods of Roman/Byzantine history for magazines such as Desperta Ferro, Medieval Warfare Magazine, Medieval World: Culture & Conflict, and medievalists.net.

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