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    Mystras: Kosmikos & Apokosmos
    Henry Hopwood-Phillips
    • Nov 22, 2019
    • 4 min

    Mystras: Kosmikos & Apokosmos

    “William found a remarkable hill, a fragment of a mountain” and “called it Myzithras because they shouted it thus, and he made it into a...
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    Byzantine Treasures in Britain: Early Byzantium
    Henry Hopwood-Phillips
    • Sep 19, 2019
    • 4 min

    Byzantine Treasures in Britain: Early Byzantium

    In 1860 the chairman of the Select Committee on the British Museum, questioning Sir Anthony Panizzi, the museum’s principal librarian,...
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    Eunuchs
    Henry Hopwood-Phillips
    • May 3, 2019
    • 4 min

    Eunuchs

    Whenever the eunuch is invoked, it’s almost always in the sense that he is a distortion or perversion of nature that only a people as...
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