12-28-2007, 04:38 AM
Quote:That's true for Western Europe (and Outremer). Byzantium and the countries in its region of influence (notably Bulgaria and Serbia) seem to have started using big flat-topped kites, as seen slung over the back of the warrior here, about the 14th century. Certainly, that's the earliest I've seen them appear.
...sorry, Steven, I thought you meant its original introduction :oops: .....I would agree that its earliest depiction in Byzantine art is the 14 C. around the time of the early Ottoman wars....
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff