Surprised by Time

--> Resident by Mistra Here on the black butt of the mountain they spattered an angle of the Morea with their strongholds...

In the 15th century, July and August were the times for massacres -- Negroponte on 12 July 14...

Felix Fabri is the guest writer for this entry.  He went twice as a pilgrim to Palestine between 1480 and 1483.  He was a Franciscan monk...

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

--> 15th C. Ag. Nikolaos Orphanos, Thessalonike Scene from the life of Ag. Gerasimos.    I have been saving images of blacks i...

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...