Mount Athos : renewal in paradise / by Speake, Graham, 1946-

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Imagining Mount Athos : visions of a holy place from Homer to World War II / by Della Dora, Veronica

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O holy mountain! : Journal of a retreat on Mount Athos / by Pennington, M. Basil

A history of the Athonite Commonwealth : the spiritual and cultural diaspora of Mount Athos / by Speake, Graham, 1946-

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“…Mount Athos.…”
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“…Mount Athos.…”
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A description of the present state of Samos, Nicaria, Patmos, and Mount Athos / by Geōrgarinēs, Iōsēph, 17th cent

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Tourist Utopias

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Tourist utopias : offshore islands, enclave spaces, and mobile imaginaries /

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Living Together - Roland Barthes, the Individual and the Community : Roland Barthes, the Individual and the Community /

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Maps and travel in the Middle Ages and the early modern period : knowledge, imagination, and visual culture /

Table of Contents: “…Sacred Topographies and the Optics of Truth: Vasilij Grigorovich Barskij's Journeys to Mount Athos (1725-1744) /…”
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Europe : a literary history, 1348-1418 /

Table of Contents: “…Cairo to Constantinople -- pt. VII. Mount Athos to Muscovy -- pt. IX. Venice to Prague -- pt. …”

An Aramaic wisdom text from Qumran : a new interpretation of the Levi document / by Drawnel, Henryk

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Byzantium : the surprising life of a medieval empire / by Herrin, Judith

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A different history of Byzantium -- The city of Constantine -- Constantinople, the largest city in Christendom -- The East Roman Empire -- Greek orthodoxy -- The church of Hagia Sophia -- The Ravenna Mosaics -- Roman law -- The bulwark against Islam -- Icons, a new Christian art form -- Iconoclasm and icon veneration -- A literate and articulate society -- Saints Cyril and methodios, 'apostles to the slavs' -- Greek fire -- The Byzantine economy -- Eunuchs -- The imperial court -- Imperial children, 'born in the purple' -- Mount Athos -- Venice and the fork -- Basil II, 'the bulgar-slayer' -- Eleventh-century crisis -- Anna Komnene -- A cosmopolitan society -- The fulcrum of the crusades -- The towers of Trebizond, Arta, Nicaea and Thessanlonike -- Rebels and patrons -- 'Better the Turkish turban than the Papal tiara' -- The siege of 1453 -- Conclusion: The greatness and legacy of Byzantium.…”

The Byzantine tradition after the fall of Constantinople /

Table of Contents: “…Kasdagli -- Byzantine musical traditions anmong the Slavs / Miloš Velimirović -- The Byzantine tradition in the church architecture of the Balkans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Charalambos Bouras -- The icon as a cultural presence after 1453 / Thalia Gouma-Peterson -- Walters lectionary W. 535 (A.D. 1594) and the revival of deluxe Greek manuscript production after the fall of Constantinople / Gary Vikan -- The refectory paintings of Mount Athos : an interpretation / John J. Yiannias.…”

The naked mountaineer : misadventures of an Alpine traveler / by Sieberson, Steve

Table of Contents: “…Where climbers are made -- The naked mountaineer: Matterhorn, Switzerland, 14,692' -- Pitching the Horseshoe: Snowdon, Wales, 3,560' -- The unorthodox climber: Mount Athos, Greece, 6,670' -- Climbing backward: Gorge of Samaria, Greece -- No Gods but me: Mount Olympus, Greece, 9,570', and Mount Olympus, Washington, 7,965' -- Crawling for sushi: Mount Fuji, Japan, 12,388' -- Knickers in a twist: Mount Vesuvius, Italy, 4,200' -- Twin Peaks in paradise: Gunung Agung, Bali, Indonesia, 10,308' -- Expedition to nowhere: Carstensz Pyramid, Papua, Indonesia, 16,024' -- The mountaineer unplugged: Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, 13,435' -- Northern exposure: Galdhøpiggen, Norway, 8,100' -- So the last shall be first: Mount St. …”

The image of Edessa / by Guscin, Mark

Table of Contents: “…The Abgar letters recorded separately in Mount Athos manuscripts; 6. The Menaion; Plates 1-15; Part Two The Image of Edessa; 1. …”
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Early Voyages and Travels in the Levant /

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Byzantium : the surprising life of a medieval empire / by Herrin, Judith

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A different history of Byzantium -- The city of Constantine -- Constantinople, the largest city in Christendom -- The East Roman Empire -- Greek orthodoxy -- The church of Hagia Sophia -- The Ravenna Mosaics -- Roman law -- The bulwark against Islam -- Icons, a new Christian art form -- Iconoclasm and icon veneration -- A literate and articulate society -- Saints Cyril and methodios, 'apostles to the slavs' -- Greek fire -- The Byzantine economy -- Eunuchs -- The imperial court -- Imperial children, 'born in the purple' -- Mount Athos -- Venice and the fork -- Basil II, 'the bulgar-slayer' -- Eleventh-century crisis -- Anna Komnene -- A cosmopolitan society -- The fulcrum of the crusades -- The towers of Trebizond, Arta, Nicaea and Thessanlonike -- Rebels and patrons -- 'Better the Turkish turban than the Papal tiara' -- The siege of 1453 -- Conclusion: The greatness and legacy of Byzantium.…”
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Russian-Ottoman borderlands : the Eastern question reconsidered /

Table of Contents: “…Frary -- Russia's quest for the Holy Grail: relics, liturgics, and great power politics in the Ottoman Empire / Jack Fairey -- The Crimean War and the Tatar exodus / Mara Kozelsky -- Russia, Mount Athos, and the Eastern question (1878-1914) / Lora Gerd -- "Forty years of black days"? …”