Henry Hopwood-PhillipsNov 22, 20194 minMystras: 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...
Henry Hopwood-PhillipsSep 19, 20194 minByzantine Treasures in Britain: Early ByzantiumIn 1860 the chairman of the Select Committee on the British Museum, questioning Sir Anthony Panizzi, the museum’s principal librarian,...
Henry Hopwood-PhillipsMay 6, 20193 minThe BagaudaeIn the late third century Diocletian sent his colleague Maximian to Gaul to subdue the “country folk and bandits whom the inhabitants...
Henry Hopwood-PhillipsMay 3, 20194 minEunuchs 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...
Henry Hopwood-PhillipsApr 27, 20194 minHow to read a Byzantine Church Reading a church can be a daunting prospect. Weird Latinate or Greek-based terms are deployed to outline liturgical functions with even...