How Long to Read The Soldier's Life

How Long Does it Take to Read The Soldier's Life?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 32 minutes to read The Soldier's Life by Michael Edward Stewart

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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Byzantine masculinity that suggest a Christian ideal of manliness based on extreme ascetic virtues and pacifism had superseded militarism and courage as the dominant component of hegemonic masculine ideology. Though the monograph does not reject the relevance of Christian constructions of masculinity for helping one understand early Byzantine society and its diverse representations of masculinity, it seeks to balance these modern studies' often heavy emphasis on "rigorist" Christian sources with the more customary attitudes we find in the secular, and indeed some Christian texts, praising military virtues as an essential aspect of Byzantine manliness. The connection between martial virtues and "true" manliness remained a powerful cultural force in the period covered in this study. Indeed, the reader of this work will find that the "manliness of war" is on display in much of the surviving early Byzantine literature, secular and Christian.

How long is The Soldier's Life?

The Soldier's Life by Michael Edward Stewart is 385 pages long, and a total of 98,175 words.

This makes it 130% the length of the average book. It also has 120% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Soldier's Life Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 56 minutes to read The Soldier's Life aloud.

What Reading Level is The Soldier's Life?

The Soldier's Life is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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