In the village of Sklavopoula, Crete, four churches from the Venetian period are extant: those dedicated to Saint George, Christ the Saviour, the Virgin Mary, and the Holy Spirit. The Church of the Saviour, a single-nave edifice measuring 7.12 by 4.17 meters, preserves wall paintings datable to the late fourteenth century, albeit now in poor…
The discourse about the Venetian dominion in Cyprus (1489-1571) is mainly associated, not surprisingly, with the entire framework of the Latin presence in the island, including institutions, religion, as well as material heritage. This overwhelming presence of the Western dimension in historiography has somehow overshadowed the existence of various traces connecting this specific historical period…
While private legal practices in the Greek-speaking world have long been seen by Byzantinists and legal historians alike as a domain of continuity which extended into the Early Modern period, the scholarship is still deprived of a precise understanding of the mechanisms that sustained the survival of this Byzantine legacy in legal practice. This paper…
Perhaps counter-intuitively, holy women are depicted in many monastic churches: the mosaics of the narthex at Hosios Loukas are far from an exception, as the study of late Byzantine painted churches reveals. The presence of images of holy women in the (mostly) male space of the monastery deserves further investigation. Their role within the liturgy…