Foreword by Byron G. Polydoras
Τthis book, perhaps the author's favorite work to date (year 2020), was structured, not for a single category of reader, but for every philistine, simple or qualified, who wishes to come "in contact" with a multitude of medieval monuments of the Peloponnese, i.e. the Medieval Sea. This "contact", however, does not take place at all through the "trodden path" (mere presentation of the monuments), as such a thing would perhaps have no significant value, but is done through secretly existing strata and dimly lit paths that lead far, in dreamlike unreachable and spectacular places, in which the author's linguistic idiom or, as it were, his literary pen dominates - as a dormant beacon. And not only this, but also his photographic lens, a necessary piece of evidence in our time for any (such kind of) investigation.
In this way, then, the reader will visit famous castles such as those of Mystros and Gerakios, Akrokorinthos and Clermont (Chlemoutsiou), Patras, Methoni, Koroni, etc. But also many others with an unknown history , such as the Castle of Mila (Château Neuf) of the Teutonic Knights, San Flauro, Cisterna Rubea (Sister "estranged" of the homonymous castle of the Knights Templar in the Holy Land), Château d'Arlay or Castle of Arla (the misnamed up to today Aigyptiokastro), the castles of Palaiomethoni and Mostitsiou (probably connected with the Teutonic Knights) and many, many more medieval (mainly) Moreos castles. Finally, a mention necessary through the present work, is also made to the purely Gothic churches of the peninsula, as well as to those in which Byzantine and Gothic architectural elements coexist.
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