Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Show here your Byzantine warrior impression
#56
Hi. I know this is little off topic. NVG forum seems too closed for guests, and I didnt find topic for end of 12 century in area of Constantinople (4th crusade 1202-1204)
Advice me please, where should I find some source about byzantine warrior equipment. I have bought by Timothy Dawson several texts (byzantine infantryman, several books from levantia.com.au), but they often lack details for questions, when someone wants to reconstruct them at a particular time.
They say a lot about clothing and usual shoes. But details about their colors are puzzling. Because you can find in many sources pictures, but when you read texts, you find out, that ordinary mortal shouldnt wear them /red color restricted for high ranks, priests, nobility/. Or shoes - foot is pointed (not like in Renaissance but medieval-like) or round?
Ring mail are fine. Many talks about lamellar armor, their riveting, shape, but non say about dimensions of lamellae.
The helmets are also too mixed. Everyone say something about them, and quite a lot say about their shape. Usually typical for other nations. They say often about typical byzantine signs (shape/addon ect), but nobody specify what are they...
Swords of many shapes, with same problem as helmets. "they get sword from byzantine armory" (spathion, parameion etc) but their "typical" shape - recognition from northern/russian/arabian/turk is missing.
When they fight, they shout commands?/use drums/trumpets ect? when marching on same step, do they use instruments?...
Reply


Messages In This Thread
Re: Show here your Byzantine warrior impression - by Mika Graham - 08-09-2011, 08:07 AM
Re: Show here your Byzantine warrior impression - by Slavomir - 08-11-2012, 09:41 PM

Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Getting towards a Byzantine impression in the Netherlands, svdwal 2 724 02-19-2019, 07:08 AM
Last Post: svdwal
  Show here your Greek warrior impression spyros 1,103 434,726 08-21-2016, 07:24 AM
Last Post: emilius

Forum Jump: