Henry Hopwood-Phillips
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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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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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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Jan 12, 2020
- 3 min
Stabbed in the Front: How Romans Facilitated Their Own Colonisation
In the fifth century, several barbarian peoples were accorded settlements on the provincial soil of the empire. The details are worth...
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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...
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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...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Dec 6, 2019
- 6 min
The Ultimate LARP: How Germanics Mimicked Their Way Into Forging The West
The post-Roman states languish in an electric day-dream. Martial and ephemeral, they’re conventionally presented as biblical scourges...
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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
- Nov 14, 2019
- 4 min
The Fourth Crusade Blame Game: The Betrayal of Byzantium
Launched by Pope Innocent III in August 1198 with the aim of taking Jerusalem from the Ayyubids, the fourth crusade’s blueprint had a...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Nov 7, 2019
- 5 min
Linguistic Gatekeepers: How Byzantium dominated the diplomatic language game
One of the most confusing aspects to potential catechumens of Byzantium’s ideology is its ethnography. Unless well-versed in it, the Byz...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Nov 2, 2019
- 5 min
Did Byzantium kill Athens? The closure of the Academy
Two major elements in the anti-Christian prism through which the jaded West has historically viewed late antiquity (mentioned in the...
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Henry Hopwood-Phillips
- Oct 24, 2019
- 7 min
Draconian Dreams: Julian the Apostate and the Pagan Police-State
It’s easy to line Catherine Nixey between the crosshairs. Almost as undemanding, perhaps, as it was it was for her to portray the...
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