LEADER 03489oam 2200517I 450 001 9910154573903321 005 20230808200626.0 010 $a1-351-91660-2 010 $a1-315-24862-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315248622 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965759 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758291 035 $a(OCoLC)965444490 035 $a(BIP)63377303 035 $a(BIP)47104699 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965759 100 $a20180706e20161996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aMount Athos and Byzantine monasticism $epapers from the twenty-eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1994 /$fedited by Anthony Bryer and Mary Cunningham 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (295 pages) 225 1 $aSociety for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Publications ;$v4 300 $aFirst published 1996 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a0-86078-551-3 311 08$a1-351-91661-0 327 $asection 1. From Stoudios to Athos -- section 2. Community and spirituality -- section 3. Economy and patronage -- section 4. Music and manuscripts -- section 5. Art and architecture -- section 6. Athos beyond Athos. 330 $aThe papers in this volume derive from the 28th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held for the Society for the promotion of Byzantine Studies at the Univesity of Birmingham in March 1994. Virtually from the time of their first foundation, the monastic communities of Mt Athos assumed a central position in the world of Orthodox Christianity. The spiritual, and political and economic influence of the Holy Mountain soon transcended the boundaries of the Byzantine empire within which it lay, to take on a supra-national importance and become one of the pillars of Orthodoxy after the fall of the empire. For the historian, the significance of Mt Athos is enhanced by the fact that its archives contain the most substanial body of Byzantine documentation to have survived the Middle Ages, and its libraries, treasuries and buildings have preserved much that has elsewhere been lost. These archives are now largely edited, and investigation of the art and archaeology is yielding substantial evidence. The papers in this volume, by an international set of scholars, embody the fruits of this research. Starting from Athos itself, they embrace the whole phenomenon of Byzantine monasticism, dealing with questions of asceticism, authority, community, economy, enlightenment, fortification, hesychasm, liturgy, manuscripts, music, patronage, scandal, spirituality, and women (to take an alphabetical sample). Together these papers provide a coherent and immediate view of scholarship in the field. 410 0$aPublications (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)) ;$v4. 606 $aOrthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders$zByzantine Empire$vCongresses 607 $aAthos (Greece)$vCongresses 607 $aByzantine Empire$xChurch history$vCongresses 615 0$aOrthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders 676 $a271/.8 701 $aBryer$b Anthony$0162024 701 $aCunningham$b Mary$0163776 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154573903321 996 $aMount Athos and Byzantine monasticism$92206027 997 $aUNINA