06-22-2012, 07:12 PM
This is magnificent. I recently saw you and others on a clip from a Turkish TV show demnstrating Byzantine archery. Ottoman v Byzantine How nice to see Greeks and Turks working on comparative historical reconstruction together. As I understand, this 'mirror armour' has some interesting properties - ie when struck it tends to act like a spring and deflects weapon strikes well. When is the earliest we see this type of armour in art? I guess by the look of the fresco about mid 13th to 14th C.
Peter Raftos
