Mount Athos

The Garden of the Panaghia

Emmanuel Amand de Mendieta, Michael Bruce

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9783112651216
• eBook ISBN:
  9783112651223
• Topic: History
• Index: History

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Table of contents

• Foreword
• Table of Contents
• Bibliographical List of Books and Articles mentioned in this Book
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• The Landscape of Mount Athos; its Population and the "Great Ban"
• Part One A History of the Monastic Confederation of Athos
• Preliminary Remarks
• Chapter I. Athos, from the Beginning until St. Athanasios the Athonite
• Chapter II. Athos, from the Foundation of Lavra till the Turkish Conquest (963—1430)
• Chapter III. Mount Athos under Turkish Rule (1430—1912)
• Chapter IV. The Holy Mountain under Greek Sovereignty (1912—1970...)
• Appendix to Part One. The Archives of Athos and the Byzantine Records therein
• Part Two The Present Legal Position of Mount Athos
• Chapter V. The Constitutional Charter of Mount Athos and the Central Government of the Holy Mountain
• Chapter VI. The Twenty Ruling Monasteries
• Chapter VII. The Dependencies of the Ruling Monasteries: Skites, Kellia, Kalyves and Hermitages
• Part Three The Life of the Monks of Athos
• Chapter VIII. Monastic Life on Athos
• Chapter IX. The Libraries of Athos
• Chapter X. The Intellectual Interests of Certain Monks
• Chapter XI. Art on Athos: A Reflection of Monastic Piety
• Chapter XII. Communal Worship and the Divine Liturgy
• Chapter XIII. The Ascetic and Mystical Ideal of the Hagiorites
• Epilogue
• Index