Modern Crete and Orthodoxy – The Island’s Tale
How prayer, salt, and icons shaped everyday life on Crete from the Venetian era to the present.
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Field notes and essays on the churches of Crete: their frescoes, painters, inscriptions and the people around them.
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The Prophet Elijah and an Unforgettable Panigiri
What shook me – and why it wasn’t the earthquake.
Dekapentavgoustos, or the Dormition of the Mother of God
A great feast and a great story told in icons and frescoes.
How Jesus Was Bathed
Cretan Frescoes, Apocrypha, and Other Inconvenient Facts About the Nativity