{"product_id":"holy-men-of-mount-athos-richard-p-h-greenfield-9780674088764","title":"Holy Men of Mount Athos","description":"\u003cp\u003eOften simply called the Holy Mountain, Mount Athos was the most famous center of Byzantine monasticism and remains the spiritual heart of the Orthodox Church today. This volume presents the Lives of Euthymios the Younger, Athanasios of Athos, Maximos the Hutburner, Niphon of Athos, and Philotheos. These five holy men lived on Mount Athos at different times from its early years as a monastic locale in the ninth century to the last decades of the Byzantine period in the early fifteenth century. All five were celebrated for asceticism, clairvoyance, and, in most cases, the ability to perform miracles; Euthymios and Athanasios were also famed as founders of monasteries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHoly Men of Mount Athos\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates both the history and the varieties of monastic practice on Athos, individually by hermits as well as communally in large monasteries. The Lives also demonstrate the diversity of hagiographic composition and provide important glimpses of Byzantine social and political history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll the Lives in this volume are presented for the first time in English translation, together with authoritative editions of their Greek texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard P. H. Greenfield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 067408876X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674088764\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 776\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.60w x 1.60d","brand":"Richard P. H. Greenfield","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065037795583,"sku":"9780674088764","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_35ff5d69-d3a1-4be1-81ae-82c972ed3422.jpg?v=1768672725","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/holy-men-of-mount-athos-richard-p-h-greenfield-9780674088764","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}