03-01-2013, 04:32 PM
Thanks everyone.
To answer Eduard, it's a different garnment. In the De Rebus Bellicis there is a lenghty discussion of the thoracomachus and mention of a tailored cover of "lybian skin" for it to make it waterproof.
Jean Lydus describes the globa as a leather garnment with poedeones - the obiquitous pteryges we see so much depicted on roman soldiers. The globa is also described as great antiquity in the 6th century, only used by the palace guards. It's something completly different from a surcoat.
See this discussion on the french late roman forum:
http://schnucks0.free.fr/forum/viewtopic...racomachus
To answer Eduard, it's a different garnment. In the De Rebus Bellicis there is a lenghty discussion of the thoracomachus and mention of a tailored cover of "lybian skin" for it to make it waterproof.
Jean Lydus describes the globa as a leather garnment with poedeones - the obiquitous pteryges we see so much depicted on roman soldiers. The globa is also described as great antiquity in the 6th century, only used by the palace guards. It's something completly different from a surcoat.
See this discussion on the french late roman forum:
http://schnucks0.free.fr/forum/viewtopic...racomachus
"O niurt Ambrois ri Frangc ocus Brethan Letha."
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
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Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
