Holy Men of Mount Athos
- Hardcover
776 pages
- Release Date
29 April 2016
Summary
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 centu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674088764 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 067408876X |
| Author: | Richard P.H. Greenfield, Alice-Mary Talbot, Stamatina McGrath, Alexander Alexakis, D.PHIL. |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 776 |
| Release Date: | 29 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 816g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm x 38mm |
| Series: | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
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 *
About The Author
Richard P.H. Greenfield
Richard P. H. Greenfield is Professor of History at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Alice-Mary Talbot was Director of Byzantine Studies, Emerita, at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and the inaugural editor of the medieval Greek series of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Stamatina McGrath is an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University.Alexander Alexakis is Professor of Byzantine Philology at the University of Ioannina, Greece.
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