06-21-2011, 08:18 PM
What I'm referring to really, is the widespread adoption (OK, 'wider' adoption) of pteruges by the rank and file in the mid 2nd century . They seem to be much more common, just as the cingulum drops out of use by common solders.
This is fashion, so is full of messy overlap. But I wondered if the new taste for barbarian style trousers brought in around the Marcommanic Wars did not agree with cingulum wearing? What role pteruges play I don't know because I'm not sure what purpose they serve.... common legionaries and auxiliaries seem to have done without them in the previous two centuries.
This is fashion, so is full of messy overlap. But I wondered if the new taste for barbarian style trousers brought in around the Marcommanic Wars did not agree with cingulum wearing? What role pteruges play I don't know because I'm not sure what purpose they serve.... common legionaries and auxiliaries seem to have done without them in the previous two centuries.
Paul Elliott
Legions in Crisis
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/17815...d_i=468294
Charting the Third Century military crisis - with a focus on the change in weapons and tactics.
Legions in Crisis
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/17815...d_i=468294
Charting the Third Century military crisis - with a focus on the change in weapons and tactics.
