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  • Russian Monks on Mount Athos

    The Thousand Year History of St Panteleimon's

    by Nicholas Fennell ...
    The Aegean Sea laps the shores of the Holy Mountain of Athos, a self-governing monastic republic on a peninsula in Northern Greece. Twenty ruling monasteries comprise the republic; one of those is the monastery of St Panteleimon, where services are conducted in Slavonic. It has become known as the Russian monastery on Mt. Athos. St Panteleimon, fully restored in recent years, can accommodate up to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Ethan of Athos

    by Lois McMaster Bujold ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...
    Series Audiobook 1986 - The Miles Vorkosigan Adventures

    Unabridged

    6 hours 56 min

    Set in Bujold’s Vorkosigan universe, this independent novel follows a doctor as he braces himself for his first encounter with that most alien of aliens—a female of his own species.Dr. Ethan Urquhart is chief of biology at a District Reproduction Center. He delivers babies from uterine replicators. You see, on Athos there are no women. In fact, the planet is forbidden to them. Isolated from the ... Read more

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  • The Monks of Mount Athos

    A Western Monks Extraordinary Spiritual Journey on Eastern Holy Ground

    by M. Basil Pennington, OCSO ...
    Discover the rich spirituality of monastic life on Mount Athosa place like no other on earth.Twenty-five years ago, M. Basil Pennington, OCSO, was the first Western monk to live on Mount Athos for more than the usually permitted overnight visit. The Monks of Mount Athos chronicles his extraordinary stay, his experiences of the East, and lively conversations with his hosts about theological ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Broken Road

    From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    “One of the greatest travel writers of all time” recounts the last leg of his epic walk across Europe as he makes his way through Bulgaria, Romania, and finally Greece (The Sunday Times).In the winter of 1933, eighteen-year-old Patrick (“Paddy”) Leigh Fermor set out on a walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople, a trip that took him almost a year. Decades later, Leigh ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Pilgrimage to Mount Athos

    Edited by Graham Speake ...
    «Mount Athos, for over a thousand years a centre for monasticism, has attracted pilgrims for nearly as long. This fascinating collection of essays discusses pilgrimage, the pilgrims, and the monks themselves. The Athonite ban on females has not precluded essays by women, testifying to the Holy Mountain’s appeal, transcending geography.»(Fr Andrew Louth)Mount Athos is the chief centre of pilgrimage ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Ending Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery

    Freedom′s Journey

    Edited by Annalisa Enrile ...
    Bringing together conceptual, practice, and advocacy knowledge, Ending Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery: Freedom′s Journey explores the complexities of human trafficking and modern-day slavery through a global perspective. This comprehensive, multidisciplinary text includes a discussion of the root causes and structural issues that continue to plague society, as well as real-life case ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Holy Mountains, Holy Men

    The Spirituality of Mount Athos

    Edited by Graham Speake ...
    Mount Athos is often referred to as the centre of Orthodox spirituality, and so it has been for over a thousand years. Each chapter in this collection focuses on a turning point in the spiritual history of the Mountain. Some of the names mentioned may be unfamiliar, but that is because monks do not seek to publicize their activities. They are humble men who devote themselves to prayer. And yet ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Romanians and Mount Athos

    Monasteries, Archives, Pilgrimages

    Edited by Petronel Zahariuc ...
    The relationships between the Romanian Principalities and the wider Orthodox world formed a fundamental framework of Romanian history, showing the Romanians’ place and role in European and world history. For five centuries (14th–19th), Moldavia and Wallachia served as the principal cultural and material supporters of Christian peoples in the Balkan Peninsula and the Near East.This volume brings ... Read more

    $88.19 USD

  • A History of the Athonite Commonwealth

    The Spiritual and Cultural Diaspora of Mount Athos

    by Graham Speake ...
    This book examines the part played by monks of Mount Athos in the diffusion of Orthodox monasticism throughout Eastern Europe and beyond. It focuses on the lives of outstanding holy men in the history of Orthodoxy who have been drawn to the Mountain, have absorbed the spirit of its wisdom and its prayer, and have returned to the outside world, inspired to spread the results of their labours and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Mount Athos

    Edited by Graham Speake ...
    Series series Routledge History Handbooks
    The first comprehensive English-language reference devoted to Mount Athos (also known as the Holy Mountain), The Routledge Handbook of Mount Athos examines the principal centre of monasticism in the Byzantine world and its enduring influence on pan-Orthodox spirituality. Since the tenth century, Athos has served as an international spiritual hub whose monasteries evolved into centres of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Russian Monks on Mount Athos

    The Thousand Year History of St Panteleimon's

    by Nicholas Fennell ...
    The Aegean Sea laps the shores of the Holy Mountain of Athos, a self-governing monastic republic on a peninsula in Northern Greece. Twenty ruling monasteries comprise the republic; one of those is the monastery of St Panteleimon, where services are conducted in Slavonic. It has become known as the Russian monastery on Mt. Athos. St Panteleimon, fully restored in recent years, can accommodate up to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mount Athos and Byzantine Monasticism

    Papers from the Twenty-Eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, March 1994

    by Anthony Bryer, Mary Cunningham ...
    Series series Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
    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 ... Read more

    $64.99 USD