“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water. So much that is good and beautiful in our lives has been twisted. For example…. Mechanical Lions of the Comnenus. Financial Times Article ALSO… The Emperor’s Palace in Constantinople (described by J Arnott Hamilton, Byzantine Architecture and Decoration (1956 pp16-17) William of Tyre in the […]
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This is the last of the Comnenus family trees for a while – until I learn more. I’m not 100% happy with this tree but time will help. It’s interesting to know that the Laskaris-Comnenus family is still going strong today. And that in the early 20th century they were in exile in Spain. This […]
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I bought this book over twenty years ago. On a whim, From a secondhand bookshop. I read it and then parked it…one book amongst many. Then three or so years ago Serious Research began on my next magnificent, blockbusting novel Ravens of Dinefwr (OK. Stop laughing. A girl can dream!) My story includes Robert Curthose, […]
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I gave a preview yesterday and today I have done as much as is needed (just for now) on the Comnenus family tree. Strange as it sounds – I had to finish this bit before I could carry on with my article about the Cathars (Big Clue there) I have chosen to post screenshots here […]
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