Henry Hopwood-Phillips
Forging Venezianita: Venice the Byzantine Naval Base
SLAVIC BRAKES (3.1) The first half of the ninth century saw Croats and other polities emerge. A group named Narentines were particularly...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- May 19
- 17 min
Forging Venezianita: The Birth of Venice
REMILITARISATION OF ITALY (2.1) Italian society had not contributed large amounts of manpower to the Roman military since the mid-third...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Apr 28
- 10 min
Forging Venezianita: La Serenissima’s Tortured Relationship with its Byzantine DNA
St Theodore’s Column, Venice, Sydney Vacher (1919) AIM: This paper is split into four parts and seeks to address the source scarcity that...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Feb 17
- 5 min
Exploring Gender and Paganism within Christianity's DNA
During the Reformation Protestants accused Catholics of harbouring ideas that were less Christian than Greco-Roman i.e. pagan. It was a...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Feb 3
- 11 min
A Deadly Dance: The Papacy, Anglos, Britons & Irish
“To go to Rome Is much trouble and little profit. The King whom you seek there Unless you take Him with you, you will not find.” – An...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Jan 14
- 15 min
Eternity’s Eye: A Chronology of Rome’s Earliest Surviving Christian Mosaics (400–850)
I spent 2021’s Indian Summer (Sept–Oct) in Rome documenting the city’s Byzantine churches. My appetite had been whetted by days 5–7 of...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Jan 1
- 15 min
The Long March of Latin Alienation from the Empire
You ought to know that the pontiffs of Rome preside in that city in order to maintain peace like a common wall occupying the middle...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Dec 23, 2021
- 11 min
What hath Jerusalem to do with Milan?
[Fashion] represents a long… legitimate hope to actualise a lost image… [which] retains… an unquiet fascination with an allusive glory...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Dec 16, 2021
- 3 min
Float like a Stylite, Sting like an Imperial Decree: Byzantine Monasteries in Rome
Profile of Rome As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, pastoral care in early Christian Rome was looked after by the tituli. These numbered twenty...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Dec 9, 2021
- 3 min
Did Regional Theology Trump Imperial Loyalty? An Egyptian Case-Study
Egypt mattered. Though no emperor since Diocletian had travelled to the country, its tax revenues accounted for roughly a third of the...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Dec 2, 2021
- 4 min
Regionalism in Byzantium & Early Islam
Historically, the scholarly literature on the Rhomaioi has either melted sub-identities in a vast Orthodox soup, or fractured the empire...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Oct 22, 2021
- 7 min
Cartographers of the Mind: Byzantine Views on Nature
Byzantines, on the one hand, celebrated nature as a reflection of God’s glory. On the other, they considered it fleeting, corruptible and...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Sep 23, 2021
- 11 min
Flagship of Romanitas: Constantinopolitan Statuary
“Thus, for this and many other reasons, one sees just how low sculpture and with it the other arts had fallen by the time of Constantine....
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Sep 16, 2021
- 5 min
Anthemius: the Betrayed Byzantine Saviour of the West
When all seemed lost; when the chasm between the elder Rome and the new seemed unbridgeable; when the extent to which the Germanics had...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Sep 9, 2021
- 12 min
The Invention of Roma Christiania: How the Early Papacy Policed Art & Faith
“Hi sunt olivae duae coram Domino Et candelabra luce radiantia Praeclara caeli duo luminaria Fortia solvent peccatorum vincula Portas...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Aug 12, 2021
- 10 min
Imitatio Theclae: Exploring Gender in Thecla's World
A disciple and colleague of the apostle Paul, Thecla was the most celebrated female saint of late antiquity. Recognised for her...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Jul 29, 2021
- 10 min
The Sky Cannot Brook Two Suns: Frankish Impressions of Constantinople
“Ce nos ont nostre livre apris Que Grece ot de chevalerie La premier los et de clergie, Puis vint chevalerie a Rome Et de la clergie la...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Jul 15, 2021
- 5 min
Anti-Byzantine Rhetoric in the Renaissance
I’ve resisted writing up the exchange below because it features heavily in a book I’ve scribbled, half of which is dedicated to the theme...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Jul 8, 2021
- 6 min
Londonium: a Reappraisal
No archaeology has substantiated the medieval tradition of London (AKA “New Troy”) being founded by Brutus in 1108 BC, or its later...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Jun 10, 2021
- 10 min
Fashioning Romanitas on the Bosphorus
‘You must dress well to gain admiration from your subjects.’ Patriarch Photios to Boris of Bulgaria Contemporary remnants of ‘Byzantine’...
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