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Military Equipment in the Byzantine Manuscript of Scylitzes in Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid
Author(s) -
Ada Bruhn de Hoffmeyer
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
gladius
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-4168
pISSN - 0436-029X
DOI - 10.3989/gladius.1966.171
Subject(s) - byzantine architecture , empire , chronology , ancient history , history , classics , humanities , art , archaeology
The purpose of the present paper is to provide an introduction to the military equipment of the Second Golden Age of the Byzantine empire as represented not by the text of Scylitzes but by the illuminators of this marvellous manuscript, the relations of the illuminations to the actual weapons and their chronology.

El propósito de este trabajo es proporcionar una introducción al equipamiento militar durante la Segunda Edad de Oro del Imperio Bizantino, tal y como se representa no a través del texto, sino de las iluminaciones, del manuscrito Scylitzes de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid, y la comparación de las iluminaciones con el armamento auténtico y su cronología. [traducción para esta edición electrónica

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