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Holy Men of Mount Athos (Hardcover)
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Holy Men of Mount Athos (Hardcover)
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
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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.
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