Description: Mount Athos was the most famous center of Byzantine monasticism and remains the spiritual heart of the Orthodox Church today. Holy Men of Mount Athos presents the Lives of five holy men who lived there at different times, from the ninth century to the last decades of the Byzantine period in the early fifteenth century.
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Stamatina McGrath is an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University.
Review Quotes: With this corpus of translations of Athonite saints' Lives, a scholarly platform has been created for the future investigations on an interesting branch of Byzantine hagiography and on the life of a monastic polity.--Stephanos Efthymiadis "Speculum" (4/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)