Surprised by Time

November 26 Thanksgiving in the US, but it is the Feastday of Ag. Nikon of Sparta. I do not like Ag. Nikon, but I am going to try to be fa...

Nicholas from Nauplion was a sailor on Magellan's Victoria between 1519 and 1522. He was one of eighteen men who survived the first cir...

On the back of the painting it says In 1506 on June 1 this was painted by the hand of master Zorzi from Castelfranco, colleague of maste...

Nick Nicholas was visiting and we were discussing the 15th-century elephant in the manuscript he and George Baloglou had published, An En...

                                                                     This faceless Byzantine queen will represent Sophia of Montferrat: ...

Aerial view of Tavia, now Davia, west of Tripolis, in the foothills of Mainalon Among the resources for the 15th century Morea are the l...

[Readers should take note of the corrections added in the Comments to this post.] In April 1485, Bartolomeo Minio , who had managed not to...

I was showing my grandson, Senan, the statue of Constantine Palaiologos in the plateia in front of the Athens cathedral. This statue is ...

Ai Yanni is a much-loved chapel across the road and up a hill from the village of Lefkakia. It nestles into its stones like Gulliver into a...