Lady of high lineage of the Palaiologean period (1261-1453). Take a very detailed delmatikion. His crown is like that of the Augousta but less rich, in fact he wears a crown of kaisarissa. At that time, elements as common in the past as maforion were the exclusive use of the Empress.
maid in silk ravenna century vi d c
A Sebastokrator of the fourteenth century, of the imperial family, wears a roukhon that accompanies with a very elaborate tabarion (cloak). The cap is a skaranikon with the image of the emperor. His boots have the double-headed eagles of the Paleologos dynasty (such as tabarion). The other man is a protovestiarios, who wears a skiadion…
6th century citizen
Empress of the 6th century AD half dressed. The empresses enjoyed a regalia similar to that of the emperor but with feminine details. In the suit (divetesion) of the illustration of the augousta some ornaments are observed such as the sementa (the circles on the shoulders) and the klavoi, it still does not wear the…
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A review of some of the surviving funerary clothes of the Bohemian royal family in the 14th century, including the houppelande. Photos/diagrams included.
Zoste patrikia and courtesan of the imperial family of the tenth and eleventh centuries AD. The courtly title of zoste patrikia was a very high title within the Imperial Court, since she was the first lady of company and direct assistant of the Empress. In the illustration he wears a delmatikon tunic, he wears a…
By Periklis Deligiannis Modern researchers of medieval military history often wonder what was the nature of the Byzantine weapon called ‘rhomphaia’? The rhomphaia (or rhomphaea) of Antiquity was a weapon of the Thracians, which consisted of a long straight or slightly curved sickle-shaped blade mounted on a long wooden shaft. If the rhomphaia was sickle-shaped,…
