SPEAKE GRAHAM

MOUNT ATHOS
TWELVE YEARS HAVE PASSED since I wrote the Preface to the first edition of this book. I welcome the opportunity to prepare a second edition and to add a new concluding chapter in which I have been able to recount and reflect on the changes that have taken place on Mount Athos over these years. I have also made a number of changes to the original text, for many of which I am indebted to the kindness of friends and reviewers, and I have updated the Bibliography. I am grateful to Denise Harvey not only for undertaking publication of the secon...
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ΑΓΙΟΝ ΟΡΟΣ
Το Άγιον Όρος, το Περιβόλι της Παναγίας, βρίσκεται στο μυαλό και στην καρδιά πολλών, σαν τον Νίκο Γαβριήλ Πεντζίκη, ως ο τόπος όπου το θαύμα συντελείται καθημερινά, με κυρίαρχη έκφρασή του την ανανέωση του μοναχικού βίου ως το κατ' εξοχήν θαύμα της Θεοτόκου στον τόπο αυτό. Η ανάγκη κάποιων λαϊκών να διαχειριστούν την κατάθεση αυτού του θαύματος μέσα τους οδήγησε τις εκδόσεις Ίνδικτος να δημιουργήσουν τη σειρά «Αθωνικά», επιδίωξη της οποίας είναι να συνυφαίνει λόγια προσκυνητών και μελετητών με τον λόγο των Αγιορειτών πατέρων. Θεωρήθηκε σωσ...
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(P/B) MOUNT ATHOS
Mount Athos, a peninsula in northern Greece, is the centre of monasticism for all the Eastern Orthodox Churches. Known as the Holy Mountain, it has been a monastic preserve since the ninth century and remains closed to women. This book, written by a regular visitor to the Mountain, is a history of Mount Athos from pagan antiquity to the present day. Drawing on a variety of sources, including the recently published archives of the monasteries and monastic tradition, it focuses on the people who have illumined the story of Athos from its ded...
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