Surprised by Time

Fresco from the Church of the Holy Apostles, Peć.   I have just come across a document that gives information to supplement a recent ...

There are no pictures of Maria, or Marie, d"Enghein, or d'Enguino, or any of six other spellings, but a hundred years ago,...

--> Five Greek poppies, three varieties This blog began two years ago today.  At the time,...

Fletcher is missing. There is no picture of William Fletcher. Two hundred years ago this July, George Gordon, Lord Byron (left), and Jo...

  Spolia mean "carvings from previous periods patched into later buildings," and you would think that there would be a lot to f...

Because one of our finest poets, W. S. Merwin, has just been appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States, I want to take the opportu...

1431, Pseudo-Apuleius, Bodleian Library I wrote here earlier about Dr. Pepagomenos' treatment for gout , and I a...

--> Biblioteca Geral, Coimbra, Portugal --> A gift: this wonderful collection of photographs of the most beauti...

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

--> --> Evliya Çelebi visited Nauplion -- Anapli -- in 1668, at the end of his tour of the Morea.  He loved travel, but he ha...