The author analyses the gendered discourse used by Procopius in the Wars and the Secret History in order to shed new light on Byzantine political debate at the time of Justinian’s Reconquista.
Michael Stewart. Masculinity, Identity, and Power Politics in the Age of Justinian: A Study of Procopius. Social worlds of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, 4. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
From Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR). Review by Ecaterina Lung, University of Bucharest