Surprised by Time

Frontispiece, I Fatti e le Prodezze di Manoli Blessi, Strathioto by Antonio Molino, 1561. Having seen two blogs in the past...

Probable representation of an archon,  Andreas Pavias, Crucifixion, late 15th C. Archons essentially disappear in 1460 with t...

Detail, Klontzas, Passion The earliest documentary evidence for Krokodylos Kladas seems to be a letter from Jacopo Barbarigo of 25 J...

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...

These marvellous striped stockings, much gimped, are all that remain of the figure of a stratiote in a Cretan fresco of military saints, ...

In the fall of 1454, Mehmed II sent a letter to thirteen archons of the Morea, accepting their offer of loyalty to him. They were "Kyr...