10-08-2009, 09:35 PM
"This is disappointing as I love Mr Sumner's work. If he didn't write any of the text then I'm not buying the book. I'll borrow it and take note of the photos of the new pieces of evidence but, based on other works writen by Dr D'Amato, the text won't be of much use to me".
This assertion does not has any sense.
As already explained by Graham Sumner, He actively partecipated to the realization of this book. He completely agreed with the Dr. D'Amato fully reasonably evaluations, analisys, and comparison based on a long exhaustive and copious research of original sources and archaeological fittings, as well as artistic and literary representations. The other previous book made by D'Amato-Sumner, was Military Clothing III, not strictly related to the weaponry, but there are a lot of interesting articles done by D'Amato on ancient warfare - with paintings of Graham and not only - which had even solved some controversial topic, like that of the ventrale found on the Herculaneum soldier.
Moreover Sumner himself in his last book about Roman clothing claims that the 50% of the work was based upon Raffaele research!
This book is without any doubt useful for any serious researcher in Roman armours and weaponry, considering the large amount of new evidence presented.
Any re-enactor, scholar and student of Roman Army should thank the authors for the huge work done, which allow finally to have a new and much more correct vision of the reality of the Roman military Equipment, far from the usual stereotypes, so far shown on mostly of the books related to the topic.
This assertion does not has any sense.
As already explained by Graham Sumner, He actively partecipated to the realization of this book. He completely agreed with the Dr. D'Amato fully reasonably evaluations, analisys, and comparison based on a long exhaustive and copious research of original sources and archaeological fittings, as well as artistic and literary representations. The other previous book made by D'Amato-Sumner, was Military Clothing III, not strictly related to the weaponry, but there are a lot of interesting articles done by D'Amato on ancient warfare - with paintings of Graham and not only - which had even solved some controversial topic, like that of the ventrale found on the Herculaneum soldier.
Moreover Sumner himself in his last book about Roman clothing claims that the 50% of the work was based upon Raffaele research!
This book is without any doubt useful for any serious researcher in Roman armours and weaponry, considering the large amount of new evidence presented.
Any re-enactor, scholar and student of Roman Army should thank the authors for the huge work done, which allow finally to have a new and much more correct vision of the reality of the Roman military Equipment, far from the usual stereotypes, so far shown on mostly of the books related to the topic.
