09-07-2011, 04:58 AM
Quote:Exactly, all stuff that you might want on your person when you're in camp or in town, not when you're on a battlefield.Ah, but then I did not say I meant to bring it all to a battlefield, did I? :wink:
I think this belt is a fashion product, and the use of it (apart from being a trademark of the soldier) is (I think) not for war in the first place. But remember, soldiers do not spend all their time fighting, by far the most time they are either in a camp or in a town, or (if comitatenses) on the march. The belt will do just fine for that.
You're talking practical use (no belt needed, trinkets not on the battlefield) and that's good, but if the belts need to be for practical use first and foremost, then why do we find so many being silvered etc.? I thinbk the wide belt (which appeared in the 4th c. and disappeared in the 5th) was a handy thing, and a fashion statement.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
