Mount Athos and Byzantine Monasticism

Anthony Bryer, Emeritus, University of Birmingham, UK, and Mary Cunningham, Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, UK Kallistos Ware, Bishop of Diokleia, John A. McGuckin, Rosemary Morris, Ch. Bakirtzis, Dirk Krausmuller, Alice-Mary Talbot, Archimandrite Ephrem Lash, Alan Harvey, Nikolaos Oikonomides, Stavros B. Mamaloukos, Elizabeth A. Zachariadou, Robert W. Allison, Alexander Lingas, Peter Burridge, Sotiris Voyadjis, Ploutarchos Theocharides, Gunter Paulus Schiemenz, Bernadette Martin-Hisard, Paschalis M. Kitromilides.

• Contents: St Athanasios the Athonite: traditionalist or innovator? Kallistos Ware, Bishop of Diokleia; Symeon the New Theologian (d.1022) and Byzantine monasticism, John A. McGuckin; The origins of Athos, Rosemary Morris; Byzantine monasteries in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (Synaxis, Mt Papikion, St John Prodromos Monastery), Ch. Bakirtzis; The Athonite monastic tradition in the 11th and early 12th centuries, Dirk Krausmüller; Women and Mt Athos, Alice-Mary Talbot; Athos: a working community, Archimandrite Ephrem Lash; The monastic economy and imperial patronage from the 10th to the 12th centuries, Alan Harvey; Patronage in Palaiologan Mt Athos, Nikolaos Oikonomides; The buildings of Vatopedi and their patrons, Stavros B. Mamaloukos; ’A safe and holy mountain’: early Ottoman Athos, Elizabeth A. Zachariadou; The libraries of Mt Athos: the case of Philotheou, Robert W. Allison; Hesychasm and psalmody, Alexander Lingas; The architectural development of the Athonite monastery, Peter Burridge; The ’Tzimikes’ tower of the Great Lavra Monastery, Sotiris Voyadjis; Recent research into Athonite monastic architecture: 10th-16th centuries, Ploutarchos Theocharides; The painted psalms of Athos, Günter Paulus Schiemenz; L’Athos, l’Orient et le Caucase au XIe siècle, Bernadette Martin-Hisard; L’Athos et les Roumains, Virgil Cândea; Athos and the Enlightenment, Paschalis M. Kitromilides; Index.

'For the student of Athos in particular and of Eastern Christian spirituality and monasticism more generally, this book is a most welcome addition to a large and growing bibliography.' Religious Studies Review, Vol. 24, No. 3 'the articles by Ware, Morris, and Krausmüller will prove to be crucial to our proper understanding of the early history of Mount Athos, and those by Oikonomides, Zachariadou, Allison, and Cândea will prove equally important for the late and post-Byzantine periods.' Speculum