Conor Whately

Title: Full Professor
Phone: 204.786.9879
Office: 4G18
Building: Graham Hall
Email: c.whately@uwinnipeg.ca

Degrees:

BA (Hons) McMaster University
MA McMaster University
PhD University of Warwick

Biography:

SSHRC Insight Grant 2021-2026, “Soldiers and Civilians in Rome’s Southeast”
SSHRC Insight Development Grant 2016-2018

Affiliations:

Reviews Editor for Ancient History Bulletin

Research Interests:

Roman, late antique, and Byzantine history, ancient warfare, historiography, Roman foreign relations.

Publications:

2024. Military Literature in the Medieval Roman World and Beyond. Brill.

2023 (co-edited with Mark Hebblewhite). Brill’s Companion to Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Brill.

2022 (co-edited with David Parnell and Michael Stewart). The Routledge Handbook of Identity in Byzantium. Routledge.

2021. A Sensory History of Ancient Warfare. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books.

2021. Procopius on Soldiers and Military Institutions in the Sixth-Century Roman Empire. Leiden: Brill.

2021. "Was There a Military Revolution at the End of Antiquity?" Journal of Ancient History 9.1.

2021. "War and the Transformation of Society in Early Byzantine Arabia." In Early Medieval Militarisation, edited by E. Bennett, G. Berndt, S. Esders, and L. Sarti, pp. 99-114. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

2020 (co-edited with James Chlup). Greek and Roman Military Manuals. Milton Park: Routledge.

2020. An Introduction to the Roman Military. Hoboken: Wiley.

2019. "Procopius on the Siege of Rome in AD 537/538." In Brill's Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by J. Armstrong and M. Trundle, pp. 265-84. Leiden: Brill.

2018. "Combat Motivation at the End of Antiquity." In The World of Procopius, edited by G. Greatrex and S. Janniard, pp. 185-203. De Boccard.

2017. "Procopius and the Characterization of Bessas: Where History Meets Historiography." In Procopius of Caesarea: Literary and Historical Interpretations, edited by E. Turquois and C. Lillington-Martin, pp. 123-36. Milton Park: Routledge.

2017. "Thucydides and the Historians of the Later Roman Empire." In The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides, edited by S. Forsdyke, R. Balot, and E. Foster, pp. 691-707. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2016. Exercitus Moesiae: The Roman Military in Moesia from Augustus to Severus Alexander. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.

2016. “Camels, Soldiers, and Pilgrims in Sixth Century Nessana.” Scripta Classica Israelica 35: 121-35.

2015. Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius' Wars. Leiden: Brill.

2015. "Some Observations on Procopius' Use of Numbers in Descriptions of Combat in Wars Books 1-7." Phoenix 69.3-4: 394-411.

2015. “The Genre and Purpose of Military Manuals in Late Antiquity.” In Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity, edited by G. Greatrex and H. Elton, pp. 249-61. Farnham: Ashgate.