Introduction
Graham Speake
Part One. Historical
1. Before 963
Rosemary Morris
2. From 963 to 1204
Dirk Krausmüller
3. From 1204 to 1453
Kostis Smyrlis
4. From 1453 to 1912
Elias Kolovos
5. From 1912 to 2020
Evaggelos Bartzis
6. The Greek Tradition
Marcus Plested
7. The Georgian Tradition
Tamara Grdzelidze
8. The Russian Tradition
Nicholas Fennell
9. The Serbian Tradition
Aleksandar Fotic with Ognjen Kresic
10. The Bulgarian Tradition
Cyril Pavlikianov
11. The Romanian (Moldo-Wallachian) Tradition
Radu Pǎun
12. The Exclusion of Women (Avaton)
Ioannis Konidaris
13. The Athonite Commonwealth
Graham Speake
Part Two: Spiritual
14. Eremitic Monasticism
Zachary Chitwood
15. Cenobitic Monasticism
Nikolaos Livanos with Fr Theophilos
16. Idiorrhythmic Monasticism
Nikolaos Livanos
17. Hesychasm
Marius Dorobantu
18. Saints and Elders
Maximos Constas
19. Pilgrimage
René Gothóni
20. The Philokalia
Andrew Louth
21. Monastic Routine
Dirk Krausmüller
Part Three: Culture and Society
22. Architecture
Stavros Mamaloukos with Ploutarchos Theocharides and Petros Koufopoulos
23. Icons
Konstantinos M. Vapheiades
24. Mosaics and Wall Paintings
Konstantinos M. Vapheiades
25. Music
Ioannis Liakos
26. Libraries, Book Production, and Archives
Bob Allison
27. Sculpture, Woodcarving, Minor Arts
Dimitrios Liakos
28. The Myth and Lore of the Mountain
Veronica della Dora
29. Legal Status
Ioannis Konidaris
30. Landscape, Flora, Fauna, and Fungal Diversity
Rigas Tsiakiris with Stefanos Diamantis and Petros Kakouros
31. The Athonite Economy
Zachary Chitwood
32. Ecology and Conservation
Phaidon Hadjiantoniou
33. Athos and the Modern World
Evaggelos Bartzis
Appendix. The Twenty Monasteries
Dimitri Conomos
Biography
Graham Speake was educated at St Paul’s School, Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read classics, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he wrote a doctoral thesis on the Byzantine transmission of ancient Greek literature. Over the past forty years he has made twenty pilgrimages to Mount Athos. In 1990 he founded the Friends of Mount Athos, of which he is now President. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. His publications include Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise (2nd edition 2014), for which he was awarded the Criticos Prize, and A History of the Athonite Commonwealth (2018).
