The Routledge Handbook of Mount Athos

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-00886-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 542 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge History Handbooks

The first comprehensive English-language reference devoted to Mount Athos (also known as the Holy Mountain), The Routledge Handbook of Mount Athos examines the principal centre of monasticism in the Byzantine world and its enduring influence on pan-Orthodox spirituality.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Speake, Graham

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part One: Historical  1. Before 963  2. From 963 to 1204  3. From 1204 to 1453  4. From 1453 to 1912  5. From 1912 to 2020 6. The Greek Tradition  7. The Georgian Tradition 8. The Russian Tradition  9. The Serbian Tradition  10. The Bulgarian Tradition  11. The Romanian (Moldo-Wallachian) Tradition  12. The Exclusion of Women (Avaton)  13. The Athonite Commonwealth  Part Two: Spiritual  14. Eremitic Monasticism 15. Cenobitic Monasticism 16. Idiorrhythmic Monasticism  17. Hesychasm  18. Saints and Elders  19. Pilgrimage  20. The Philokalia  21. Monastic Routine  Part Three: Culture and Society  22. Architecture 23. Icons  24. Mosaics and Wall Paintings  25. Music  26. Libraries, Book Production, and Archives  27. Sculpture, Woodcarving, Minor Arts 28. The Myth and Lore of the Mountain  29. Legal Status  30. Landscape, Flora, Fauna, and Fungal Diversity  31. The Athonite Economy  32. Ecology and Conservation  33. Athos and the Modern World  Appendix. The Twenty Monasteries

Über Autor(innen)

Graham Speake was educated at St Paul’s School, Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read classics, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he wrote a doctoral thesis on the Byzantine transmission of ancient Greek literature. Over the past forty years he has made twenty pilgrimages to Mount Athos. In 1990 he founded the Friends of Mount Athos, of which he is now President. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. His publications include Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise (2nd edition 2014), for which he was awarded the Criticos Prize, and A History of the Athonite Commonwealth (2018).