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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.

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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 *

Holy Men of Mount Athos

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    A Hardback by Richard P. H. Greenfield, Alice-Mary Talbot, Stamatina McGrath

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      Publisher Harvard University Press
      Published 30 April 2016
      ISBN-13 9780674088764
      978-0674088764
      ISBN-10 067408876X
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      Religion Christianity Religious communities and monasticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade 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 *

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