Surprised by Time

Whenever my parents were separated, starting with when they became engaged to be married, my father would sometimes decorate the envelopes ...

Six months ago I offered a chapter from my unfinished  Villehardouin   novel. Here is the first chapter of that effort. It is 3-4 times the...

Carpaccio, Harbor Drawing , composed of elements from various harbors, including Candia and Rhodes (and I think also Nauplion). London,...

Sphrantzes wrote: "[In December 1453] the most impious and pitiless sultan, with his own hand, took the life of my dearest son ...

Angel of the Ascension , ca. 1261-1311, recently restored.  Frankish fresco, main gate of Akro-Nauplion.   Photos by Allan Brooks. ...

An extraordinary diplomatic memorandum from 1418 gives a list of twenty complaints made by an ambassador of the Despotate, and tw...