CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1. Origins of the Cataphracts

2. The First Cataphracts

3. The Parthian Cataphracts

4. Cataphracts of the Minor Kingdoms

5. The Sassanian Persian Cataphracts and Clibanarii

6. Imperial Roman Cataphracti, Cataphractarii and Clibanarii

7. The Byzantine Kataphraktoi and Clibanarii

Notes

Bibliography