Holy Men of Mount Athos

Richard P. H. Greenfield, Alice-Mary Talbot, Stamatina McGrath , Alexander Alexakis, D.Phil.

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English

Harvard Uni.Press Academi
30 April 2016

History; European history; Medieval history; Orthodox & Oriental Churches; Christian communities & monasticism

Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library

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 Athanasios were also famed as founders of monasteries.

Holy Men of Mount Athos illuminates both the history and the varieties of monastic practice on Athos, individually by hermits as well as communally in large monasteries. The Lives also demonstrate the diversity of hagiographic composition and provide important glimpses of Byzantine social and political history.

All the Lives in this volume are presented for the first time in English translation, together with authoritative editions of their Greek texts.

Edited by: Alexander Alexakis D.Phil.
Translated by: Stamatina McGrath, Alice-Mary Talbot
Edited and translated by: Richard P. H. Greenfield, Alice-Mary Talbot
Imprint: Harvard Uni.Press Academi
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 41mm
Weight: 862g
ISBN: 9780674088764
ISBN 10: 067408876X
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
Pages: 740
Publication Date: 30 April 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 (4/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)