Mielczarek Mariusz. Cataphracti and clibanarii. Studies on the heavy armoured cavalry of the Ancient World

Lodz: Officyna Naukowa MS, 1993. — 124 p.A fully documented study of the heavy armoured cavalry of the ancient world. The author reviews the ancient sources, discusses the tactics involved in the use of such cavalry, and then describes the arms and armour as used by the Parthians and Sassanians, the Seleucids, the Romans and Palmyrenes. An appendix considers also the Samaritan and Bosporan cavalry.Sources
Cataphracti and clibanarii
Tactics and the problem of the origin of the formation Part III. Cataphracti and clibanarii
Organization and arms and armour
Parthian and Sassanian cataphracti and clibanarii
Seleucid cataphracti
Roman cataphracti (catafractarii) and clibanarii
Palmyrenian clibanariiAppendix
Sarmatian and Bosporan heavy armoured cavalry
Polish Summary
Plates