THE BYZANTINE AMBASSADOR

  • Home

  • Blog

  • Reading List

    • Greek and Latin
    • Beginning
    • Delving deeper
    • Power 9000+
    • Emperor level
  • Films

    • Viking (2016)
    • Sophia (2016)
    • Fetih 1453 (2012)
    • Agora (2009)
    • Prince Vladimir (2006)
    • Tirant lo Blanc (2006)
    • Chivalric Romance (2000)
    • Kampf um Rom (1969)
    • Theodora, Slave Empress (1954)
    • Constantine and the Cross (1961)
  • Documentaries

    • Mount Athos
  • Guides

    • Italy
    • Milan
  • About

  • More

    Use tab to navigate through the menu items.
    • instagram
    • twitter
    • youtube
    • Pinterest - White Circle
    • All Posts
    • Art
    • Theology
    • Byzantium
    • Architecture
    • Byzantine Society
    • Military
    • Gaul
    • Rome
    • European Union
    • Food
    • Travel
    Search
    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...
    485 views0 comments
    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...
    963 views0 comments
    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...
    868 views0 comments
    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....
    452 views0 comments
    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...
    1,135 views0 comments
    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...
    258 views0 comments
    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…...
    845 views0 comments
    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...
    315 views0 comments
    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,...
    414 views0 comments
    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...
    183 views0 comments
    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...
    763 views0 comments
    Stabbed in the Front: How Romans Facilitated Their Own Colonisation
    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...
    352 views0 comments
    Carolingian Learning
    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...
    461 views0 comments
    An Interview with Professor M. Whitby
    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...
    204 views0 comments
    The Ultimate LARP: How Germanics Mimicked Their Way Into Forging The West
    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...
    303 views0 comments
    Mystras: Kosmikos & Apokosmos
    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...
    648 views0 comments
    The Fourth Crusade Blame Game: The Betrayal of Byzantium
    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...
    289 views0 comments
    Linguistic Gatekeepers: How Byzantium dominated the diplomatic language game
    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...
    414 views0 comments
    Did Byzantium kill Athens? The closure of the Academy
    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...
    735 views0 comments
    Draconian Dreams: Julian the Apostate and the Pagan Police-State
    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...
    986 views0 comments
    234
    5
    6