"The Military Martyrs" Topic

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Introduction
The primary purpose of this site is to enable people to begin to explore the cult of the military martyrs during the late antique and early medieval periods by:

-providing original translations of many of the primary sources which have yet to be translated into English as well as making earlier translations which have gone out of copyright available online;

-summarizing the state of current research into the origin and growth of the cult of each these martyrs;

-providing a bibliography of specialist works in respect of each martyr.

As the two reliefs above nicely illustrate, it is important to consider the cult of each individual military martyr in its full context, i.e. in the context of the cult of the other military martyrs also. This remains true from the earliest development of the cult of military martyrs in the 4th-century until its height, in both East and West, in the 14th-15th centuries. It remains true whether one is considering their cult from a literary or an artistic perspective. This is the fundamental principle underlying the construction of the present site.

Unfortunately, it's a lethargic site – last updated 2005 – with some dead links, and St. George has a thorough gallery, some just have historical text. The images span antiquity to modern times and is a great source for West and East European Medieval and Renaissance arms, armor and accouterments. At one point I was considering modifying a 14th Century St. George image in armor into a 28mm banner – flags weren't simply crosses, but works of art well into the 1600s – of the War Goddess Myrmidia. Another project on the back burner…