11-14-2006, 07:21 AM
No sweat Ioannis,
This may also be of some interest.
D’Amato, Raffaele Dott. A Prôtospatharios, Magistros, and Strategos Autokrator of 11th cent. : the equipment of Georgios Maniakes and his army according to the Skylitzes Matritensis miniatures and other artistic sources of the middle Byzantine period.
[url:2fwyiz3l]http://www.porphyra.it/Supplemento4.pdf[/url]
His references alone are worth the read. D’Amato has uncovered the use of donkey hide for military shields - which is attested, for the 11th century, by a letter of Maximos Planudes, who complains about the parchment sent to him made of donkey hide.
There are other gems you will no doubt uncover but the most panoramic survey of this period still remains:
Kolias, T.G., Byzantinische Waffen. Ein Beitrag zur byzantinischen Waffenkunde von den Anfängen bis zur lateinischen Eroberung (Byzantina Vindobonensia), Wien : Verlag der Osterraischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1988.
This may also be of some interest.
D’Amato, Raffaele Dott. A Prôtospatharios, Magistros, and Strategos Autokrator of 11th cent. : the equipment of Georgios Maniakes and his army according to the Skylitzes Matritensis miniatures and other artistic sources of the middle Byzantine period.
[url:2fwyiz3l]http://www.porphyra.it/Supplemento4.pdf[/url]
His references alone are worth the read. D’Amato has uncovered the use of donkey hide for military shields - which is attested, for the 11th century, by a letter of Maximos Planudes, who complains about the parchment sent to him made of donkey hide.
There are other gems you will no doubt uncover but the most panoramic survey of this period still remains:
Kolias, T.G., Byzantinische Waffen. Ein Beitrag zur byzantinischen Waffenkunde von den Anfängen bis zur lateinischen Eroberung (Byzantina Vindobonensia), Wien : Verlag der Osterraischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1988.
Peter Raftos