Surprised by Time

Marginal drawing, Book of Hours, Utrecht, ca. 1460.  Giorgios Sphrantzes finished  "the account of the events that occurred du...

  Women and their daughters: donors from frescos in Galata and Pedhoulas, Cyprus. Helena's mother died when she was fi...

The single coin issued in the Morea by Manuel II Palaiologos. Manuel Palaiologos and his wife Helena had ten children recor...

The empty throne room at the palace of Mistra before the grotesque archaological reconstruction. This is the second of Bessarion's tw...

S peaking of Maria of Trebizond and her riding outfit , I have been looking for all the upper-class ladies I can find from the last decades ...