Links

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Information

• Levantia: information on many aspects of life in Rômania, including dress and military equipment.
• The Princeton Architecture Project
• The Benaki Museum.
• Byzantium 1200 Digital reconstructions of the monuments of Constantinople up to the year 1200 CE.
• Byzantina Symmeitka, an on-line journal.
• 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.
• 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.

Suppliers and Craftsmen

• Graham Sumner is one of Europe’s pre-eminent historical illustrators. He has done a great deal of work on the earlier Roman Empire, and is presently illustrating Timothy Dawson’s book on the court and military dress of the later empire.
• Trinity Court Potteries: lovely stuff for your kitchen or table!

Other Historical Recreation Organisations

• FranklandAn interesting French tenth-century combat group who certainly seem to et around!
• Britannia: one of Britain's foremost Late-Roman re-enactment groups.
• Deus Vult: a new society in the UK representing armies and enemies of the Crusades.
• The New Varangian Guard: a diverse re-enatment group, mostly vaguely Viking, but containing some people doing some good East Roman re-enactment.
• SCAByzantine: an e-mail list for Eastern Roman interests in the Society for Creative Anachronism. A very focussed low-volume list which sometimes yields useful information.
• 1186: A fine Crusader States re-enactment group in the south of France. French text.
• Conquest: The British Anglo-Norman Society, 1066-1215.
• The Ermine Street Guard