Mount Athos and Byzantine Monasticism: Papers from the Twenty-Eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, March 1994

by Mary Cunningham and Anthony Bryer

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860785513
• ISBN13: 9780860785514
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages