Henry Hopwood-PhillipsJan 14, 20213 minThe Night Watch: Hadrian's Wall in the Dark AgesThere has always been the assumption that Roman Britain became post-Roman (or “sub-Roman”) the moment it was denuded of Roman troops (by...
Henry Hopwood-PhillipsJan 1, 20214 minThe First Ottoman Patriarch: Scholarios on the ThroneGeorge Scholarios was about fifty years old when Constantinople fell in 1453. Three years earlier he had taken the name of Gennadios on...
Henry Hopwood-PhillipsDec 26, 20203 minA Letter From the Lord: the Road from Abgar to MagicThe New Testament is about Christ and the consequences of his life. Yet it contains no words written directly by the Messiah. This...
Henry Hopwood-PhillipsDec 24, 20205 minMuslims on Medieval EuropeTalking of Europe to a European would have been irrelevant for much of Western history. Not because the occidental peoples didn’t have...