06-28-2005, 07:25 PM
Looking at Vort's "Ponto-Caucasian" post, I strongly suspect he is the happy owner of a book called "Armes et Guerriers Barbares" by Iaroslav Lebedynsky.
That makes two of us and it is a book I highly recommend for those of us that can read french. The emphasis is put on the asiatic --as opposed to Roman-- influences on "barbarian" --and roman-- military gear.
Amazing. You learn, among many other things that the typical IIIrd century AD scabbard slide was used all over the place, from Western Europe to China where examples made of jade were found dating from the Han dynasty...
Aaaahhh. Fashion...
What else?
Ah yes. That reconstructed Alamannic warrior chief is absolutely awesome.
That makes two of us and it is a book I highly recommend for those of us that can read french. The emphasis is put on the asiatic --as opposed to Roman-- influences on "barbarian" --and roman-- military gear.
Amazing. You learn, among many other things that the typical IIIrd century AD scabbard slide was used all over the place, from Western Europe to China where examples made of jade were found dating from the Han dynasty...
Aaaahhh. Fashion...
What else?
Ah yes. That reconstructed Alamannic warrior chief is absolutely awesome.
Pascal Sabas
