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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Jan 9, 2020
- 7 min
Carolingian Learning
In the course of my own book, which touches on the fusion of Byzantine and Latin learning in the fifteenth century, I found myself attemp...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Dec 13, 2019
- 6 min
An Interview with Professor M. Whitby
I first encountered Michael Whitby through his translation of the Pascal Chronicle (1989); a text marking such a sea-change in Roman hist...
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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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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Oct 18, 2019
- 4 min
An Epilogue: Byzantine Spain & Africa
The Byzantine chapter on Africa (and to a lesser extent, Spain) tends to be a short one. It starts with a whiff of betrayal from men like...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Aug 29, 2019
- 4 min
High Life: Eating out in Constantinople
Despite Turks being associated with kebab culture in Europe – and much of the world thanks to the antics of Salt Bae (AKA Nusret Gokce) o...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Jun 20, 2019
- 6 min
Ethnic minorities in Byzantium Part 3
Jews Byzantine relations with the Jews have always been complex, not least because the former effectively stole the latter’s ideological ...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Jun 14, 2019
- 5 min
Ethnic Minorities in Byzantium Part 2
Bogomils Gnostics to the bone, the Bogomils seem to have snowballed in their Macedonian-Bulgarian heartland after John I transferred anot...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Jun 7, 2019
- 5 min
Ethnic Minorities in Byzantium Part 1
“One finds me Scythian among Scythians, Latin among Latins… And also to Persians I speak in Persian… To Alans I say in their tongue: ‘...
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