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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.

Friday, 18 January 2019

Notaras Family Tree

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George Notaras was father of Nicholas, who made the great fortune which waited in the vaults of St George in Genoa for hi...
Thursday, 17 January 2019

What really happened to Loukas Notaras?

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One of the most famous incidents of the Fall of Constantinople is the fate of Loukas Notaras, the megas doux. Naturally the most lurid acc...
Saturday, 12 January 2019

Un-Boxing Helena

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        Sometimes scattered pieces of historical information fit together to form a picture of the past which, whilst not definitive, appe...
Saturday, 22 December 2018

Benozzo Gozzoli's Byzantine-Florentine Advent Calendar (part 5)

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Continuing on from my previous posts on Benozzo Gozzoli's masterpiece "The Journey of the Magi". This time, I would like to fo...

Benozzo Gozzoli's Byzantine-Florentine Advent Calendar (Part 4)

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Continuing on from my previous posts on Benozzo Gozzoli's masterpiece "The Journey of the Magi". This time, I would like to f...

Benozzo Gozzoli's Byzantine-Florentine Advent Calendar (parts 3)

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Continuing on from my previous posts on Benozzo Gozzoli's masterpiece "The Journey of the Magi". Last time I rejected a comm...

Benozzo Gozzoli's Byzantine-Florentine Advent Calendar (Part 2)

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Continuing on from my previous post on Benozzo Gozzoli's masterpiece "The Journey of the Magi". We can begin to examine the ...
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