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  • 21 June 2026 · Artur KiwaCretehistoryVenetians

    A Wall Full of Names. The Monastery of Saints Peter and Paul at Cape Spatha

    For nearly a hundred years, sailors, merchants and officials carved their names into the plaster of this church. Sixty-six inscriptions between 1514 and 1608. A document of movement, not of piety.

  • 5 June 2026 · Artur KiwaCretehistoryVenetiansCretan SchoolByzantium

    When Constantinople Fell, Crete Rose

    On 29 May 1453, Constantinople fell. For many, it marked the end of the Byzantine world. For Crete, it became the beginning of an extraordinary age of artistic, intellectual and spiritual flourishing.

  • 30 May 2026 · Artur KiwaCretehistoryiconographyVenetians

    An Island at the Crossroads of Death. Crete in the Time of Plague

    In the summer of 1347, a ship from Constantinople sailed into the port of Chandax. It brought something no one was waiting for: a plague that would cut through medieval Crete, its cities, villages, ports, wills, and religious imagination.

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