This monograph examines the various ways martial virtues and images of the soldier's life shaped early Byzantine cultural ideals of masculinity.
It contends that in many of the visual and literary sources from the fourth to the seventh centuries CE, conceptualisations of the soldier's life and the ideal manly life were often the same.
By taking this stance, the book challenges the view found in many recent studies on Late Roman and early Byzantine masculinity that suggest a Christian ideal.
Kismet Press Llp The soldier's life: martial virtues and manly romanitas in the early byzantine empire, paperback/michael edward stewart
