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    Cover Yo Woman: The Byzantine Stance on Veiling Women
    Henry Hopwood-Phillips
    • Apr 16, 2020
    • 7 min

    Cover Yo Woman: The Byzantine Stance on Veiling Women

    Nowhere has the link between dress and identity received more scrutiny than in recent scholarship dealing with veiling trends among women...
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    Orbis Britanniae: A Dark Age Alphabet
    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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    The St Mark Ivories: The Grado Chair That Never Was
    Henry Hopwood-Phillips
    • Apr 4, 2020
    • 7 min

    The St Mark Ivories: The Grado Chair That Never Was

    Fig.1 - The Annunciation, Museo del Castello Sforzesco, Milan. In 1899 a group of ivory carvings (figs. 1-5 provide a sample) was connect...
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    Vortigern: The British Scapegoat
    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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    The Battle for the Venetian Soul: Byzantium vs. Francia
    Henry Hopwood-Phillips
    • Mar 26, 2020
    • 4 min

    The Battle for the Venetian Soul: Byzantium vs. Francia

    From the appearance of the Lombards in Venetia[1] in AD 568/9, Venice had to play a clever game to enforce any sort of autonomy in the fa...
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    Whence St Demetrios?: The Spanish Patron Saint of Thessaloniki
    Henry Hopwood-Phillips
    • Mar 21, 2020
    • 4 min

    Whence St Demetrios?: The Spanish Patron Saint of Thessaloniki

    There is a disturbing lack of early evidence for the cult of St Demetrios at Thessalonica. In light of this the majority of modern schola...
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    Balkan Christianity: The Early Years
    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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    Did Byzantine Heraldry Exist?
    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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    Christian Worship: The Early Years
    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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    The Development of Christian Jerusalem
    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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    Neoplatonic Christianity: 
An Alternative Theological Model or Dead-End?
    Henry Hopwood-Phillips
    • Feb 27, 2020
    • 13 min

    Neoplatonic Christianity: An Alternative Theological Model or Dead-End?

    “Only a few things in the Platonic books need to be altered to make their authors Christian.”[1] St Augustine “Oneself is not the subject...
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    The Walls of Ravenna
    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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    A Byzantine In England: A Glimpse Into The Life Of Theodore Of Tarsus
    Henry Hopwood-Phillips
    • Feb 13, 2020
    • 5 min

    A Byzantine In England: A Glimpse Into The Life Of Theodore Of Tarsus

    In AD 669 Theodore, a Byzantine monk from Tarsus, arrived in England having been appointed Archbishop of Canterbury two years previously....
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    Universal Salvation or Perpetual Hell? Apokatastasis: The Ultimate Reunion
    Henry Hopwood-Phillips
    • Feb 8, 2020
    • 4 min

    Universal Salvation or Perpetual Hell? Apokatastasis: The Ultimate Reunion

    Referring to restoration, reintegration and reconstitution, Apokatastasis is the restoration of all creation to its proper place in fellow...
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    A Florentine Cul-De-Sac: The Union That Divided
    Henry Hopwood-Phillips
    • Feb 6, 2020
    • 8 min

    A Florentine Cul-De-Sac: The Union That Divided

    “My son, of course we know very well that the infidel dread the day we come to an agreement and unite with the Franks; for, they believe ...
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    The Biblical Account of Demonology
    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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    Ecclesiastical Hegemony: The Causes of the Divorce between Constantinople & Moscow
    Henry Hopwood-Phillips
    • Jan 30, 2020
    • 4 min

    Ecclesiastical Hegemony: The Causes of the Divorce between Constantinople & Moscow

    “Do not accept the teachings of the Latins, whose instruction is vicious.”[1] Russian Primary Chronicle The Russians historically recogni...
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    1431-1449: The Final Ecumenical Council - Two Churches, One Tradition
    Henry Hopwood-Phillips
    • Jan 23, 2020
    • 5 min

    1431-1449: The Final Ecumenical Council - Two Churches, One Tradition

    Western theology tends to be identified with post fifteenth-century Thomism. This may marginalise trends such as Scotism, Ockhamism, huma...
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    Three’s a Crowd: How the Papacy Sought a Germanic Godfather
    Henry Hopwood-Phillips
    • Jan 18, 2020
    • 5 min

    Three’s a Crowd: How the Papacy Sought a Germanic Godfather

    Charles Martel’s martial help was sought by Pope Gregory III, who in AD 739 sent an embassy to the ruler bearing many precious gifts incl...
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    The Development of Music in the Medieval West
    Henry Hopwood-Phillips
    • Jan 16, 2020
    • 5 min

    The Development of Music in the Medieval West

    The Romans adopted Greek theory and practice as far as both vocal and instrumental music were concerned. Later Roman writers on music (Ma...
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