Michael Edward Stewart (honorary Research Fellow, University of Queensland) researches issues of culture, gender, and identity in Late Antiquity. He is the author of Masculinity, Identity, and the Rhetoric of Power Politics in the Age of Justinian (Amsterdam University Press, 2020).

• Acknowledgements, A Note on Translations, Sources, and Names, Preface, I Finding Procopius, 1. Introduction, 2. Will the Real Procopius Please Stand Up, Procopius' Oeuvre, Historiographical Debates, A Christian Procopius, Dates, Cistern or Safety Net?, II The Contest, 3. The Danger of the Soft Life, Rhetoric and Reality, A Soft Empire, Vita Militaris, Romans and Goths, Aeneas' Ship, 4. Courage, Fear, and Generalship in the Vandal War, Fifth-century Roman Failures, The Launch, Tricamarum, 5. Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Eunuchs in a Changing World, The Blame Game, Solomon, Narses: The Manly Eunuch, Martial Manliness, Draining Belisarius' andreia, Brave New World, III Chaos Encroaching, 6. Killing Justinian, Artabanes: Slayer of Tyrants, Theodora Steps In, The Plot, 7. Totila: Hero or Trope?, Order out of Chaos, Standing up to Totila, Last Dance, Conclusion: All Quiet on the Italian Front, Bibliography, Primary Sources, Secondary Sources, Index, Chronology

Michael Edward Stewart (honorary Research Fellow, University of Queensland) researches issues of culture, gender, and identity in Late Antiquity. He is the author of Masculinity, Identity, and the Rhetoric of Power Politics in the Age of Justinian (Amsterdam University Press, 2020).

• Acknowledgements, A Note on Translations, Sources, and Names, Preface, I Finding Procopius, 1. Introduction, 2. Will the Real Procopius Please Stand Up, Procopius' Oeuvre, Historiographical Debates, A Christian Procopius, Dates, Cistern or Safety Net?, II The Contest, 3. The Danger of the Soft Life, Rhetoric and Reality, A Soft Empire, Vita Militaris, Romans and Goths, Aeneas' Ship, 4. Courage, Fear, and Generalship in the Vandal War, Fifth-century Roman Failures, The Launch, Tricamarum, 5. Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Eunuchs in a Changing World, The Blame Game, Solomon, Narses: The Manly Eunuch, Martial Manliness, Draining Belisarius' andreia, Brave New World, III Chaos Encroaching, 6. Killing Justinian, Artabanes: Slayer of Tyrants, Theodora Steps In, The Plot, 7. Totila: Hero or Trope?, Order out of Chaos, Standing up to Totila, Last Dance, Conclusion: All Quiet on the Italian Front, Bibliography, Primary Sources, Secondary Sources, Index, Chronology