TY - BOOK ID - 3548490 TI - Holy men of Mount Athos AU - Greenfield, Richard P.H. AU - Talbot, Alice-Mary AU - Harvard University Press PY - 2016 VL - 40 SN - 9780674088764 067408876X PB - Cambridge, Mass. ; London Harvard University Press DB - UniCat KW - Christian saints KW - Orthodox Eastern monasteries KW - 271 <495 ATHOS> KW - Monasteries, Orthodox Eastern KW - Monasteries KW - Orthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders KW - Saints KW - Canonization KW - Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--Griekenland--ATHOS KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Church history. KW - Christian saints. KW - Orthodox Eastern monasteries. KW - History. KW - Byzantine Empire. KW - Greece KW - Church history KW - History KW - Christian saints - Greece - Athos - Biography KW - Orthodox Eastern monasteries - Greece - Athos KW - Athos KW - Byzantine Empire - Church history UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3548490 AB - "This volume presents selected Lives of holy men who lived on Mount Athos, the most famous Byzantine center of monasticism; it was often termed simply Hagion Oros, or the Holy Mountain. These vitae provide insights both into the history of monastic development on Athos between the ninth and fifteenth centuries, and the varieties of monastic life practiced communally in large monasteries as well as individually in huts and caves. We have chosen six vitae of five different saints, who were celebrated for their ascetic practices, gift of foresight and clairvoyance, and, in most cases, the ability to perform miracles. Euthymios and Athanasios were also famed as founders of monasteries. We offer two versions of the Life of Maximos the Hutburner, to demonstrate how hagiographic accounts of the same saint could vary, even when composed very close in time. It should be noted that, with the exception of Athanasios of Athos, the cult of these saints was essentially limited to the Holy Mountain, as can be seen by the manuscript tradition; all the surviving manuscripts of these Lives were copied on Athos."--Provided by publisher. ER -