Mount Athos Renewal in Paradise

Name: Mount Athos Renewal in Paradise
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ISBN: 9780300103236

ISBN-10: 0300103239

ISBN-13: 9780300103236

Edition: 2004

Authors: Graham Speake

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Mount Athos, a spectacularly beautiful rocky peninsula on the coast of Greece, has been a monastic preserve since the ninth century. This richly illustrated book tells the entire story of Athos, the Holy Mountain, from the first anchorite monks who lived in caves and huts through centuries of political and religious controversy to the thriving monastic communities of today. “Superb photographs, fascinating. Travelers and pilgrims alike, as well as those who prefer to stay at home, will relish this tour of Athos’s history, its relics and treasures, and, in part, its consciousness.”—Literary Review “An all-embracing panorama of the nature and detailed history of Athos.”—Anglo-Hellenic Review…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 7/11/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.738
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