Byzantine Cataphract research for SCA sit

Greetings,
I stumbled across this site and it seemed like a good place to get some feedback...

http://warriorsofhistory.com/pages/diomedes-sebastianus.html


Background
I belong to an international "historical society" called the SCA (details: SCAdemo.com ) where we portray personas from pre 17th Century European history. One of the many activities we (as these personae) do is full contact armoured combat with rattan (solid bambo) battons.

Some people's armours are fantastic, many are lacking. Some are simply "Stick Jocks" that throw a tunic over anything protective and jump into the fray. To be fair, it is often difficult to accurately portray an armour style with the combat we do, as we require body be armoured for safety in a manner that is often in conflict with the historical.


* A recent move has resulted in the loss of all but my online research. I can't find any of my nots and about 1/2 my Roman & Late Roman books. I have no footnotes left, and I'm in the tedious process of recreating them *

Thanks!
I do some illumination (love the Maciejewski Bible), light brewing, dance, and lots of armoured combat.
:)

(That's odd, I posted this in the "Military History" area...
Was this moved?)

Edited by D. Sebastian - 23-Feb-2007 at 01:10

We have equestrian events, that comprise mostly of games of skill (hitting the quintain, jousting rings, spear throwing and stabbing objects on the ground at a gallop, sword work where fake heads are knocked off of posts, obstacle courses and sometimes even archery from horseback).

There is some contact jousting, but that's really in its infant stage.

Pics and more detail:
http://www.scademo.com/demo.equestrian.php

I'm not involves in the equestrian, as I have no horse. But its enjoyable to watch.

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Please explain how this is advertising?
The site I linked to is my own personal with *no* means of revenue generation. The greater society is non-profit educational.

I'm concerned that I'm not going to get the critical feedback I'm looking for. Really, I'm looking for schollarly advice in the area of my display of a Late Roman, and the best way of rebuilding my footnotes without cheezing out and reverse-researching.

Thanks.