Isbn: 9780674088764 - Holy Men of Mount Athos (dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library) (11 results)

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 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. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition. First printing. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 745 pp with bibliography, index. Mount Athos, often simply called the Holy Mountain, was the most famous center of Byzantine monasticism and remains the spiritual center of the Orthodox Church today. This volume presents the Lives of Euthymos the Younger, Athanasios of Athos, Maximos the Hutburner, Niphon of Athos, and Philotheos. These five lived on Mount Athos at various periods from the ninth to fifteenth centuries.…

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1st edition. 8vo. xxvii + 745pp. In original cloth and beige d/w. lettered in white and black. Very good. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 40. ISBN 9780674088764 US$22.

2016 1st edition, tightly bound in plum cloth with gilt lettering on black background to front and spine. Light wear to dust jacket edges; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

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