03-06-2008, 12:59 PM
Images probably coming from the big edition of Vasilief's Byzantine History.
I am not sure and I believe the artist has used the same depiction to show Medieval Swiss and Spanish infantry.
According to the text these are "defensores".
Well I do not know if a Byzantine military professional had different names for all this pole-arms depicted here but the Greeks use the term dory or logchi for thusting pointed weapons or sometimes call them kontari from the medieval greek (byzantine) kontarion
Kind regards
I am not sure and I believe the artist has used the same depiction to show Medieval Swiss and Spanish infantry.
According to the text these are "defensores".
Well I do not know if a Byzantine military professional had different names for all this pole-arms depicted here but the Greeks use the term dory or logchi for thusting pointed weapons or sometimes call them kontari from the medieval greek (byzantine) kontarion
Kind regards
HOPLITE14GR (aka Stefanos)
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Phokean Ekdromos
http://hetairoi.de/
http://hoplomachia.gr
http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com