文档介绍：Byzantine Imperial
Guardsmen 925–1025
The Tághmataand Imperial Guard
RAFFAELE D’AMATO ILLUSTRATED BY GIUSEPPE RAVA
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Byzantine Imperial
Guardsmen 925–1025
The Tághmata and Imperial Guard
RAFFAELE D’AMATO ILLUSTRATED BY GIUSEPPE RAVA
Series editor Martin Windrow
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 4
CHRONOLOGY 5
THE REGIMENTS – FORMATION & ORGANIZATION 10
The Thémata The Tághmata: Skhólai – Eskoubitores –‘Víghla’ or ‘Arithmós’– Ikanátoi –
Athanatoi – Noúmeroi and Teichistai Vasilikoploimon (the Constantinople fleet)
The Imperial Guard: Vasilikê Etaireía – Vasilikodhrómonion (the Imperial flotilla) – Maghlavítai –
Vasilikoi Anthropoi Other Guard units: Archontogennhematai – Sardoi – the Varangian Guard
Clothing
WEAPONS & EQUIPMENT 41
Weapons: Swords – daggers – spears – maces – axes – bows Defensive equipment: Helmets –
body armour: lamellar, scale and mail –‘soft’ armour – shields Horse equipment
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 61
INDEX 64
BYZANTINE IMPERIAL
GUARDSMEN 913–1025
THE TÁGHMATA AND IMPERIAL GUARD
INTRODUCTION
Between the 9th and 11th centuries the East Roman Empire, at that time
dominating most of south-eastern Europe from its capital in Constantinople,
enjoyed a period of unprecedented splendour and renewed vigour under the
rule of the Macedonian emperors of the Porphyrogenitus dynasty. (The
modern Anglophone convention of referring to this
polity as the Byzantine Empire is necessarily followed
in this text for the sake of clarity, but it should be
remembered that the inhabitants of the Eastern empire
called themselves ‘Rhomaioi’ or Romans. The
Byzantine state derived directly and without
interruption from the Eastern capital, administration
and provinces of the Late Roman state, which had
survived the barbarian invasions of the 4th and 5th
centuries AD that destroyed the Western Empire.)
The Macedonian dynasty, originating in north-
western Thrace, acceded to the throne of Byzantium
due to the energy