Mount Athos Renewal in Paradise

Name: Mount Athos Renewal in Paradise
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ISBN: 9780300093537

ISBN-10: 0300093535

ISBN-13: 9780300093537

Edition: 2002

Authors: Graham Speake

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Known as the Holy Mountain, Mount Athos serves as the centre of monasticism for all the Eastern Orthodox churches. This illustrated history covers the entire story of Athos from the first anchorite monks who lived in caves and simple huts to the monastic renewal that is taking place there today.

Book details

List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 1/11/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 308
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Graham Speake is by training a classicist and by profession and academic publisher. He is the founder and honorary secretary of the Friends of Mount Athos and a frequent visitor to the mountain.



Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Athos BC



The Garden of the Mother of God



Byzantine Athos



Palaiologan Athos



Ottoman Athos



Twentieth-Century Athos



Athos Today: For the Monk



Athos Today: For the Pilgrim


Epilogue


Notes


Select Bibliography


Glossary


Index


Photographic Acknowledgements