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Holy Men of Mount Athos
Henry T. Greely
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Description for Holy Men of Mount Athos
Hardback. Mount Athos was the most famous center of Byzantine monasticism and remains the spiritual heart of the Orthodox Church today. Holy Men of Mount Athos presents the lives of five holy men who lived there at different times, from the ninth century to the last decades of the Byzantine period in the early fifteenth century. Editor(s): Greenfield, Richard P.H.; Talbot, Alice-Mary; Alexakis, Alexander. Translator(s): Greenfield, Richard P.H.; Talbot, Alice-Mary; McGrath, Stamtina. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Num Pages: 740 pages. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HRC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 133. .
Often simply called the Holy Mountain, Mount Athos was the most famous center of Byzantine monasticism and remains the spiritual heart of the Orthodox Church today. This volume presents the Lives of Euthymios the Younger, Athanasios of Athos, Maximos the Hutburner, Niphon of Athos, and Philotheos. These five holy men lived on Mount Athos at different times from its early years as a monastic locale in the ninth century to the last decades of the Byzantine period in the early fifteenth century. All five were celebrated for asceticism, clairvoyance, and, in most cases, the ability to perform miracles; Euthymios and ... Read more
Often simply called the Holy Mountain, Mount Athos was the most famous center of Byzantine monasticism and remains the spiritual heart of the Orthodox Church today. This volume presents the Lives of Euthymios the Younger, Athanasios of Athos, Maximos the Hutburner, Niphon of Athos, and Philotheos. These five holy men lived on Mount Athos at different times from its early years as a monastic locale in the ninth century to the last decades of the Byzantine period in the early fifteenth century. All five were celebrated for asceticism, clairvoyance, and, in most cases, the ability to perform miracles; Euthymios and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
776
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674088764
SKU
V9780674088764
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About Henry T. Greely
Richard P. H. Greenfield is Professor of Byzantine History at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Alice-Mary Talbot is Director of Byzantine Studies Emerita, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Stamatina McGrath is an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University. Alexander Alexakis is Professor of Byzantine Philology at the University of Ioannina, Greece.
Reviews for Holy Men of Mount Athos
With this corpus of translations of Athonite saints' Lives, a scholarly platform has been created for the future investigations on an interesting branch of Byzantine hagiography and on the life of a monastic polity.
Stephanos Efthymiadis Speculum (04/01/2018)
Stephanos Efthymiadis Speculum (04/01/2018)