Surprised by Time

Empress Helena of Byzantium (?) 1437-39. Lesnovo, Macedonia   (This entry is taken from an arti cle by Raymond-J oseph Loenertz...

  The Palaiologos family, 1408.   [Note: I have obtained new information which has changed my mind somewhat about Manuel as a father....

Manuel ,"son of Eudokia, the illustrious and thrice-happy, whose father is a Caesar and whose mother is from a branch of flowerin...

Detail, icon of S. Georgio dei Greci, Georgios Klontzas, 16th C. Istituto Ellenico, Venice I have already written here about the a...

Image of signatures of Demetrios Palaiologos, 1451.* I was recently reading Warren Woodfin's fascinating book, The Embodied Icon...

 Detail, Musée du Louvre, Paris. Ms. Ivories A53, f.1  1408. Theodoros, πορφυρογέννετος a nd δεσπότης. Andronikos, αὐθεντόπουλος  ...

Dying child, fresco of King David Voronet Monastery, Romania   In 1400, Manuel and Helena Palaiologos left Constantinople on a Ve...

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

About the ceremony to create a despot, Pseudo-Kodinos says: The triklinos is prepared: one readies the throne of the emperor where a cur...