Surprised by Time

The Luttrell Psalter was created between 1320 and 1340, at the commission of Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, lord of the Manor of Irnham in Lin...

\ Pietro Lorenzetti, 1310-1320.  Seattle Art Museum.  Saint Peter and Saint Paul rarely, if ever, smile.  In fact, do people in paint...

Samuel Dirksz vans Hoogstraten , Louvre. This wonderful 17th-century Dutch painting narrates a fragment of a story about a woman in ...

If all goes as planned, this blog will appear on 6 January to announce the  surgery on my left thumb, a procedure called Resection...

Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles  of golden moss, Silently and very fast. W. H. A...

The tracks at Plovdiv. This contribution is by Pierre MacKay, about a train trip from Vienna to Istanbul in August 1973.   * * *...

Angel, Ag. Nicholas, Mistra. I recently discussed Bessarion's monody,  one of four given at the  μνημόσυνον  for Cleofe Malates...

15 th- century remains of fief boundary wall and tower at Myloi. It is easier to think about fief churches than fiefs, because w...

Bessarion's index to Marciana Gr Z 533 (coll 778). Five-thirty-three, as we call it here in this house (feeling that “Gr Z” an...

Church of Ag. Adrianos, near Nauplion. I recently became interested in fief churches after I realized I had identified three in th...