Surprised by Time

Another chapter from the Villehardouin novel I mostly wrote 25+ years ago and never completely finished. This chapter is about Bon...

Alessio Sopracasa has found a remarkable source for the Venetian-Ottoman war in the Venetian archives. A single page contains a se...

Andrew Wyeth, Frostbitten , 1962. watercolor on paper. 16 x 23 ½ in. Of the more than 370 entries I have written here, the se...

This picture and the one below are from Michael of Rhodes . In trying to find out how Greeks lived their lives in the fifteenth cen...