Composition on Warfare medium cavalry

The prokoursatores were a medium cavalry arm whose job was to harass small groups of the enemy and pursue fugitives. They could be equipped in a simple klivanion like the horse archer, or they could wear mail as here.(PM II.3) Their standard armament was a mace, sword and round shield.
The saddle is, of course, modern, but less different from a Roman one than from a European type of that time. The high European war saddle did not begin to be adopted in Romania until the twelfth century.

For more information see the author’s Osprey Publishing, Warrior Series volume Byzantine Cavalryman: Eastern Roman Empire, c.900 - 1204, 2009.

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