Surprised by Time

Sphrantzes wrote: "[In December 1453] the most impious and pitiless sultan, with his own hand, took the life of my dearest son ...

15th-C Greek philosopher You know the Greek delegation at the Council of Union was in trouble from the git-go when George Amiroutz...

Drawing by Gentile Bellini, ca. 1480.   When The City was taken in May 1453, the Morea went into panic.  It was said that both the d...

15th C Venetian lion, Negroponte Last March at the Renaissance Studies Association, there was a series of panels on the Venetian stato...

Detail from the Camoccio map of Nauplion, showing the piers and the route up to Akro-Nauplion (See Section 8 below) The same day the Si...

Greeks, by Erhard Reuwich, 1455-1490.   This picture has been overused in blogs, but there are  so few contemporary pic...

Fresco from the Church of the Holy Apostles, Peć.   I have just come across a document that gives information to supplement a recent ...

  This court official of Mistra  is standing in for Demetrios Laskaris Asan.  He was known to the Venetians in Naupli...