Mount Athos Treasures in Russia
Author : Hidryma Hellēnikou Politismou (Athens, Greece)
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art objects, Greek
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Author : Hidryma Hellēnikou Politismou (Athens, Greece)
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art objects, Greek
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Author : Robert Byron
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Art
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Author : Nicholas Fennell
Publisher : Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781787078802
This book is about the Russian contribution to monasticism on Mount Athos and the Athonite contribution to Russian spirituality. It marks the millennium of the Russian presence on Mount Athos. The authors are theologians, churchmen, and historians, all experts on the Holy Mountain, who draw on source materials, some rare and hard to access.
Author : Nicholas Fennell
Publisher : Holy Trinity Publications
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1942699425
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 5,000 men, reflecting the scale of the settlement at its apogee in the nineteenth century, prior to the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 it has experienced a strong revival and is now one of the most numerous of the twenty. The vast buildings and its sketes and dependencies seen today are really only a reflection of the history of the past two centuries.In this first comprehensive account of the monastery in the English language, that stretches back more than one thousand years, Nicholas Fennell has drawn from previously inaccessible archival materials in gathering the wealth of information he shares in these pages. The history of the community is seen to interact with the wider worlds of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires and the modern nation state of Greece, together with that of a Russian homeland whose political character is constantly evolving. It covers the distinct phases in this history: From the tenth to the twelfth centuries when Russian Athonites inhabited the ancient Russian Lavra of the Mother of God, known as Xylourgou; through the six hundred years from the mid-twelfth to the mid-eighteenth century, when the monastery of St Panteleimon was commonly referred to as Nagorny or Old Mountain Rusik; and into the most recent 250 years with their fluctuating fortunes and the questioning of its ethnic identity. Themes explored include the Pan-Orthodox ideal, the role of money and political pressure, sanctity and heroism in adversity, ethnic relations, and the importance of historical memory and precedent.
Author : Athanasios A. Karakatsanis
Publisher :
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
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Udstillingskatalog til en udstilling i Museum of Byzantine Culture i 1997 omfattende skatte fra munkeklosteret på Mount Athos
Author : Nadia Miladinova
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004277811
Created in the twelfth century, the Panoplia Dogmatike is one of the Byzantine anthologies that became a key source for Orthodox theology. The anthology is known in more than 140 Greek manuscripts. In the fourteenth century it was translated into Old Church Slavonic. The Latin translation, prepared by the Italian humanist Pietro Francesco Zini, was published in Venice in 1555 during the years of the Council of Trent. The first printed edition of the Greek text came relatively late – in 1710 in the Romanian Principality of Wallachia. By examining the reasons for this publication, the book gives snapshots of the history of this authoritative anthology in the early modern period and uses sources until now not related to the Panoplia.
Author : Nicholas Fennell
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783906766935
Greeks and Russians had coexisted on Athos for eight centuries, but from 1839 to the eve of the First World War their relations disintegrated. This book looks at the causes of this deterioration against the background of Balkan and European history, and examines the Prophet Elijah Skete, with which the modern story of the Russian Athonite community begins and is concluded. Hitherto, most of what has been written about the Russians on Athos has been from either a Greek or a Russian perspective. This book takes an objective view of the conflict. The author breaks new ground by using unpublished archive material, much of which has survived only on his microfilm.
Author : Robert Byron
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 2024-05-23
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ISBN : 9781780602219
The Station follows three high-spirited young men as they visit twenty monasteries on Mount Athos in 1927. They examine treasures, photograph frescoes and sketch the courtyards and those who live in them. They swim ecstatically off the sparkling, deserted beaches, climb mountains, talk and share meals with monks and transcribe these conversations with relish. For life is very different for a celibate hermit on Mount Athos. Time has no meaning: the Son of God, His Virgin Mother, the Angels and the Saints are all living creatures of flesh and blood, and the Pope is a heretic. This slim book was little short of revolutionary in its fearless championing of Greek Orthodoxy and Byzantine civilization, reversing centuries of western prejudice. It was the first of Robert Byron's travel books, revealing the flashing wit, bravery, passion and astonishing powers of visual observation which made him such a brilliant writer. The playfully obscure title is only finally explained in his last sentence: 'This is the holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped.'
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Monasteries
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Author : Andrew D. Mayes
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666775215
This exciting resource on desert spirituality is quite unlike any other: at once a physical journey to outstanding deserts of the planet and an odyssey of the soul. A journey of discovery takes us across five continents as we venture to places few pilgrims reach: the Gazan desert, the Sahara, the Australian outback, the Athos wilderness and the Ordos Desert of China, and the Syrian desert, among others. Evocative descriptions by early travelers and by the author immerse us into a diversity of wilderness landscapes, stimulating the senses and the imagination. Physicality leads to spirituality as we listen to compelling voices that speak to us poignantly across space and time—including spiritual writers long-forgotten or not well-known. These unearth for us the treasure we seek: we uncover the distinctive charism of each desert, offering us different and challenging ways of looking at the world and at the spiritual life. We discover the unpredictable desert to contain unexpected, priceless treasures of transformative wisdom that speak uncannily into our own contemporary spiritual search. We see how these gems can energize and inspire our discipleship or spiritual practice. As we embark on this spiritual quest, we may never be the same again!