1st Edition
Portraits of Generalship and Authority in the Age of Justinian
Contributors ix
Preface x
Acknowledgements xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: Justinian and his Magistri Militum at the Crossroads of a New Age 1
MICHAEL EDWARD STEWART
1 Emperors of War: Belisarius, Narses, Germanus, and the Problem of Enacting Imperial Authority 20
CLEMENS KOEHN
2 Solomon, the Eunuch General Extraordinaire 57
CONOR WHATELY
3 Sittas: The Armenian Specialist 73
DAVID ALAN PARNELL
4 Dashing John: Insubordination, Social Networks, and Marriage Alliances during the Gothic War, 537–553 94
MICHAEL EDWARD STEWART
5 Generalship and Literature in the Sixth Century: The General Martinus in Procopius and Agathias 120
JONATHAN THOMAS WILD
6 ‘He Was Defeated by His Own Bad Planning’: A Reappraisal of Baduila’s Generalship and Statecraft 142
MARCO CRISTINI
7 Artabanes: Divided Loyalties and Political Necessities in the Reign of Justinian I 164
MIRANDA WILLIAMS
8 The Generalship of Philippicus: Commanding, Fighting, and Attaining Martial Masculinity and Virtue in the Late Roman Near East 184
SEAN STRONG
9 Bahram Chobin: General, Rebel, and King 208
MICHAEL BONNER
10 Loving the Standards of Rome 223
CHRISTOPHER HEATH
Coda 239
LEONORA NEVILLE
Index 243
Biography
Michael Edward Stewart is an honorary Research Fellow of the University of Queensland, Australia. He researches issues of culture, gender, and identity in Late Antiquity and is the author of Masculinity, Identity, and the Rhetoric of Power Politics in the Age of Justinian (2020).
