Porphyry And...

The blog of all things concerning The Porphyry Novels - a series of historical novels set during the Fall of Constantinople and the subsequent decades of the Fifteenth Century.

Saturday, 26 June 2021

Porphyry and Bones - Authors Note

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Sharpe books tell me it becomes commercially unprofitable to publish paperbacks beyond a certain page count (perhaps especially for low vo...

Thursday, 16 July 2020

How Columbus and European Colonialism learned their dark art in the Levant

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European Colonialism doesn’t begin with Colombus or 1492. The 1st people to be colonised by Europeans were other Europeans. The Frankokrati...

Thursday, 2 July 2020

Hagia Sophia and the little known last Divine Liturgy

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"Some weeks before, Anna Notaras had wished that the candle of worship within Hagia Sophia might flame up one last time. Alt...

Tuesday, 3 December 2019

Torcello

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Before the Roman fall of 1453 there was the Roman fall of 452. Before Venice there was Altinum. When the Huns of Attila burst ...

Monday, 29 July 2019

The life and times of Anna Notaras

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I had the pleasure this month of guest posting at the Coffee Pot Book Club. https://maryanneyarde.blogspot.com/2019/07/join-historicalfic...

Tuesday, 28 May 2019

Porphyry and Ash

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Released today, in paperback and Kindle: Porphyry and Ash. 1452: After a thousand years, the sun is setting on the Eastern ...

Monday, 8 April 2019

The Life of Gemistus Plethon

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Georgius Gemistus (later called Plethon), was one of the most renowned philosophers of the late Byzantine era. He was an important pion...

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