Surprised by Time

In recent weeks I have been sorting through Pierre MacKay 's boxes and drawers and shelves and desks. The last project so far was t...

Mistra in shrouds. Photo by Stella Chrysochoou. The monody by Nikiforos Cheilas is the last of the four monodies delivere...

The Ottoman Fleet of Tarik-y Bayezid (ink and gold leaf on vellum) 16th century, which is early for Evliya. This week, a section ...

Pierre MacKay, my partner and ξυνεργὸς, died quietly on Sunday morning, June 14. Typically for him on Sunday, he was doing the New York...

Two documents for Cyriaco of Ancona, one new, one ignored, that contribute to his portrait. * * * * * * * * * * Cyriaco  is...

Demetrios Pepagomenos was the second of the four speakers at Cleofe's memorial. I have written about these monodies at other tim...

The best and wisest of friends, Nikeforos Prinkeps Cheilas, is one of the small group of intellectuals of mid-century Mistra, and p...

Two and a half years ago,  I wrote about the time  Pepagomenos left his sons with the Eugenikos family in Mistra when he and his wife...