09-24-2005, 01:48 PM
Unfortunately the book is out of print and unavailable at Amazon.
My theory is that cataphracts were born as armoured horse archers, as they seem to show up first in the steppes, so that they had to deal with horse archers armies, and then when Iranians enteres contact with other military cultures, like that of the Romans, with a strong infantry component, they slowly shifted into armoured lancers. So there would be in fact 2 types of cataphracts. in fact, late steppe warriors, like the turks or the mogols, did use "cataphracts", in the sense of armoured horse archers.
My theory is that cataphracts were born as armoured horse archers, as they seem to show up first in the steppes, so that they had to deal with horse archers armies, and then when Iranians enteres contact with other military cultures, like that of the Romans, with a strong infantry component, they slowly shifted into armoured lancers. So there would be in fact 2 types of cataphracts. in fact, late steppe warriors, like the turks or the mogols, did use "cataphracts", in the sense of armoured horse archers.
AKA Inaki
