Links

• Steven Baker's very fine website on eastern historical interests - archery especially.
• Stephen Lowe's compendium on Byzantium and related matters.
• The Serce Liman shipwreck Many fine pictures of glassware, ceramics and other items from an early eleventh century Roman merchant ship trading with Syria and Egypt.
• Byzantine Studies on the Internet. This site gives access to a great deal of excellent source material, many useful links and information for Byzantine studies.
  However, some pages by the auther that are linked to it express opinions on theology and sexuality which some people find contentious and offensive.
• Dumbarton Oaks Material from the Dumbarton Oaks Research Centre and library, one of the world's top institutions for Byzantine studies.
• Byzantine art and information from the Metropolitan Museum N.Y.
• Gouden Hoorn is an unaffiliated on-line journal for Byzantine Studies.
• Another source of interesting links.

Assorted antiquarian recreation sites.

• Hetaireia Palatiou / Palace Company: A British living history group focusing on aspects of the court milieu of Constantinople in the tenth to twelfth centuries.
• La Tagma de Byzance: A most interesting Palaiologian era living history society in France. French text with many colourful pictures.
• 1186: A fine Crusader States re-enactment group in the south of France. French text.
• Conquest: The British Anglo-Norman Society, 1066-1215.
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  Skholai kai Tagmata: An East Roman re-enactment group in Germany.
• Hammaborg Some friends in Germany.
• The Academy for European Medieval Martial Arts is part of the growing trend to recover the West's sopisticated heritage of non-gunnery martial skills.
• The Association for Renaissance Martial Arts is also part of the Western martial arts revival. There is lots of excellent information on this site.
• The New Varangian Guard inc (umbrella body). A somewhat Byzantine oriented reenactment group. Links to local groups and Australia and other parts of the world.
• Steven Wyley's compendium on historical information. Some good material on arms and armour, tents and so on.
• The Pike and Musket Society of New South Wales. A well dressed C17th military re-enactment group. Past masters of the scurrilous song!
• The Society for Creative Anachronism in Australia. Modern day fairytale “chivalry”, with Big Sticks! And a small number of people doing remarkably obsessive lifestyle re-creation.

Non-links: Pseudo-historical and antiquarian recreation sites best avoided.

• While the site at “http://www.gryph.com/byzantine/dress.html” offers some excellent scans of late antique Coptic garments, its contents bear no resemblance to its claimed subject matter of “Byzantine costume around the year 1000”.
• The New Jerusalem Mosaic. (http://jeru.huji.ac.il/open_screen2.htm) It is astonishing that an organisation like the Hebrew University of Jerusalem could produce a site so bad in its social history elements.
• Another dismal travesty in the clothing department by someone who calls herself "Black Tauna" (http://members.tripod.com/BlackTauna/byzantine.html) The patterns given here bear no resemblance to anything ever used.