Swords in Byzantium

This book is part one of the second volume from the Studia Militaria Balcanica series. It includes comprehensive texts on the theme Swords of Byzantium from 6^th century AD to 11^th century.

The book contains several topics: history of research on the swords in Byzantium written by the editor and the most complete study of the written sources on Byzantine swords by Prof. Taxiarchis G. Kolias (University of Athens, Greece). There are presented some new types of swords discovered lately in the Byzantine Empire and its neighboring territories. They are defined and discussed by Assoc. Prof. Valeri Yotov (Varna Museum of Archaeology, Bulgaria) and Assoc. Prof. Christoph Eger (LVR-Romermuseum, Xanten, Germany).

Introduction
Cold Weapons in Byzantium: Swords and Knife
The Byzantine spatha in the late 5^th century and the 6^th century AD in the Balkans
Swords with massive bronze guards of the Aradac-Kolked-Corinth type
The Garbonc type at the Byzantine swords
Some more words about the Byzantine term
The cold weapon from Cierny Brod
The Kunagota Sword-guard
The find of Sfantu Gheorghe, Covasna County (1943): questions, that might be raised