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).

• Contributors ixPreface xAcknowledgements xiList of Abbreviations xiiiIntroduction: Justinian and his Magistri Militum at the Crossroads of a New Age 1MICHAEL EDWARD STEWART1 Emperors of War: Belisarius, Narses, Germanus, and the Problem of Enacting Imperial Authority 20CLEMENS KOEHN2 Solomon, the Eunuch General Extraordinaire 57CONOR WHATELY3 Sittas: The Armenian Specialist 73DAVID ALAN PARNELL4 Dashing John: Insubordination, Social Networks, and Marriage Alliances during the Gothic War, 537–553 94MICHAEL EDWARD STEWART5 Generalship and Literature in the Sixth Century: The General Martinus in Procopius and Agathias 120JONATHAN THOMAS WILD6 ‘He Was Defeated by His Own Bad Planning’: A Reappraisal of Baduila’s Generalship and Statecraft 142MARCO CRISTINI7 Artabanes: Divided Loyalties and Political Necessities in the Reign of Justinian I 164MIRANDA WILLIAMS8 The Generalship of Philippicus: Commanding, Fighting, and Attaining Martial Masculinity and Virtue in the Late Roman Near East 184SEAN STRONG9 Bahram Chobin: General, Rebel, and King 208MICHAEL BONNER10 Loving the Standards of Rome 223CHRISTOPHER HEATHCoda 239LEONORA NEVILLEIndex 243

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).

• Contributors ixPreface xAcknowledgements xiList of Abbreviations xiiiIntroduction: Justinian and his Magistri Militum at the Crossroads of a New Age 1MICHAEL EDWARD STEWART1 Emperors of War: Belisarius, Narses, Germanus, and the Problem of Enacting Imperial Authority 20CLEMENS KOEHN2 Solomon, the Eunuch General Extraordinaire 57CONOR WHATELY3 Sittas: The Armenian Specialist 73DAVID ALAN PARNELL4 Dashing John: Insubordination, Social Networks, and Marriage Alliances during the Gothic War, 537–553 94MICHAEL EDWARD STEWART5 Generalship and Literature in the Sixth Century: The General Martinus in Procopius and Agathias 120JONATHAN THOMAS WILD6 ‘He Was Defeated by His Own Bad Planning’: A Reappraisal of Baduila’s Generalship and Statecraft 142MARCO CRISTINI7 Artabanes: Divided Loyalties and Political Necessities in the Reign of Justinian I 164MIRANDA WILLIAMS8 The Generalship of Philippicus: Commanding, Fighting, and Attaining Martial Masculinity and Virtue in the Late Roman Near East 184SEAN STRONG9 Bahram Chobin: General, Rebel, and King 208MICHAEL BONNER10 Loving the Standards of Rome 223CHRISTOPHER HEATHCoda 239LEONORA NEVILLEIndex 243

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).

• Contributors ixPreface xAcknowledgements xiList of Abbreviations xiiiIntroduction: Justinian and his Magistri Militum at the Crossroads of a New Age 1MICHAEL EDWARD STEWART1 Emperors of War: Belisarius, Narses, Germanus, and the Problem of Enacting Imperial Authority 20CLEMENS KOEHN2 Solomon, the Eunuch General Extraordinaire 57CONOR WHATELY3 Sittas: The Armenian Specialist 73DAVID ALAN PARNELL4 Dashing John: Insubordination, Social Networks, and Marriage Alliances during the Gothic War, 537–553 94MICHAEL EDWARD STEWART5 Generalship and Literature in the Sixth Century: The General Martinus in Procopius and Agathias 120JONATHAN THOMAS WILD6 ‘He Was Defeated by His Own Bad Planning’: A Reappraisal of Baduila’s Generalship and Statecraft 142MARCO CRISTINI7 Artabanes: Divided Loyalties and Political Necessities in the Reign of Justinian I 164MIRANDA WILLIAMS8 The Generalship of Philippicus: Commanding, Fighting, and Attaining Martial Masculinity and Virtue in the Late Roman Near East 184SEAN STRONG9 Bahram Chobin: General, Rebel, and King 208MICHAEL BONNER10 Loving the Standards of Rome 223CHRISTOPHER HEATHCoda 239LEONORA NEVILLEIndex 243