Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the KATÁFRAKTOI in the Byzantine Army
This article discusses the question of origin and identity of katáfraktoi – heavy-armoured cavalry in Byzantium. In the specialist literature on the subject, there is a widespread opinion that the heavily-armoured elitist cavalry, defined as catafracti and clibanarii had existed from the Hellenistic...
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Lodz University Press
2012-08-01
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| Series: | Studia Ceranea |
| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/sceranea/article/view/5502 |