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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Apr 9, 2020
- 7 min
Orbis Britanniae: A Dark Age Alphabet
Agilbert (d. 675) was bishop successively of Dorchester-on-Thames and Paris. A Frank who’d studied in Ireland, he left the West Saxon bis...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Mar 28, 2020
- 7 min
Vortigern: The British Scapegoat
Vortigern was the most dominant figure in what remained of the Roman administration after the departure of the Roman legions. His invitat...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Mar 19, 2020
- 7 min
Balkan Christianity: The Early Years
House of Dionysios, Archaeological Museum of Delos Whenever the clash of paganism and Christianity is discussed, minds jump to the easy f...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Mar 12, 2020
- 5 min
Did Byzantine Heraldry Exist?
Was there an equivalent use of distinctive motifs employed as ornament by the Byzantine nobility (to convey the same messages of authorit...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Mar 7, 2020
- 4 min
Christian Worship: The Early Years
At the beginning of the second century, Christian ritual was loosely organised. The congregation would assemble at sunrise on Sunday for ...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Mar 5, 2020
- 5 min
The Development of Christian Jerusalem
If Rome evolved a stational liturgy in order to connect scattered cemeteries and tituli (which were by the third century accorded specifi...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Feb 21, 2020
- 5 min
The Walls of Ravenna
Ancient Ravenna lay much closer to the coast than it does today, the sea now having receded approximately six miles. Our earliest descrip...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Feb 1, 2020
- 5 min
The Biblical Account of Demonology
I was recently struck by a paper penned by C. Mango, which asserted that: “The gospel does not contain a coherent theory of demonology… [...
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