Quote Originally Posted by Gnoman View Post
On this subject, I'm currently going through the third edition of Montross's War Through The Ages, and she cites a quote from Procopius that is related, regarding the horse-archers of the Byzantine Empire of AD 530.



Does anybody have sources to dispute this, or more details on the "corselet" of the era?
A corselet could really mean anything, though it usually refers to metal armor. It could be mail, it could be a breast plate, but given that particular context I would guess lamellar over mail, specifically some version of a type of Byzantine armor they sometimes called 'klibanion'

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