Hear the swish of silk clothing

From Viewing the Morea: Land and People in the Late Medieval Peloponnese by Sharon Gerstel

Wandering through the streets of Mystras one envisions the city through reconstructions of its multistoried houses and its great and beautiful churches. To revisit Mystras as it was, one needs to hear the swish of silk clothing and listen for the chatter of its intellectuals, who once populated the city’s libraries and court.