The latest post on the Great Ming Military blog, http://greatmingmilitary.blogspot.com/2017/10/traditional-chinese-and-byzantine.html, is a particularly interesting one if you're into armour construction.
Very interesting and a useful post. A few more exampkes would have added to the article. The Byzantine saint illustration is an exampke of a particular genre of highly decorated and classicised illustration and the author could have found more practical exampkes to match against the Chinese 'cataphract' armour.
Roy
It broadened my knowledge (and hopefully understanding), and one can see - among other things - that the Chinese cataphract 'corsets' had a practical function.
Thanks, Duncan.
And, weirdly, the blogpost linked to has now disappeared from http://greatmingmilitary.blogspot.com.
It was there when i looked at it today
It's back; looks like it's been modified slightly.