Surprised by Time

Detail, Giovanni Bellini, Miracle of the Cross , 1500. It is difficult to find pictures of slaves who are not black.  A hundred ye...

Lotto , St. Barbara , detail. Last week, Surprised by Time looked at some of the laws in Methoni intended to maintain peace and qui...

Column in the central plateia of Methoni wher all  announcements were made, public justice enacted, and the main market held. Vol...

Idealized city walls, Pantanassa, Mistra I have been trying to get a portrait of the cities of the Morea in the fifteenth century.  C...

Methoni castle (Kal 'a-i Metoni) 1509, Kemal Paşa Zade, Tevâŕh-i Al-i Osmân (Ms. Dresd. Eb.391) [Late note: A correspondent has ...

Nauplion Houses. Detail from Camoccio map , 1571. Towards the end of the fifteenth century, Canon Casola and Felix Fabri described Modon...

--> Bones of 1480, Otranto Cathedral When I lived in Venice 12 years ago, the manuscript I was working on contained a number o...