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Mount Athos and Byzantine Monasticism - Papers from the Twenty-Eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, March 1994 (Hardcover, New edition)
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Mount Athos and Byzantine Monasticism - Papers from the Twenty-Eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, March 1994 (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
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The papers in this volume derive from the 28th Spring Symposium of
Byzantine Studies, held for the Society for the promotion of
Byzantine Studies at the Univesity of Birmingham in March 1994.
Virtually from the time of their first foundation, the monastic
communities of Mt Athos assumed a central position in the world of
Orthodox Christianity. The spiritual, and political and economic
influence of the Holy Mountain soon transcended the boundaries of
the Byzantine empire within which it lay, to take on a
supra-national importance and become one of the pillars of
Orthodoxy after the fall of the empire. For the historian, the
significance of Mt Athos is enhanced by the fact that its archives
contain the most substanial body of Byzantine documentation to have
survived the Middle Ages, and its libraries, treasuries and
buildings have preserved much that has elsewhere been lost. These
archives are now largely edited, and investigation of the art and
archaeology is yielding substantial evidence. The papers in this
volume, by an international set of scholars, embody the fruits of
this research. Starting from Athos itself, they embrace the whole
phenomenon of Byzantine monasticism, dealing with questions of
asceticism, authority, community, economy, enlightenment,
fortification, hesychasm, liturgy, manuscripts, music, patronage,
scandal, spirituality, and women (to take an alphabetical sample).
Together these papers provide a coherent and immediate view of
scholarship in the field.
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