| DATE | AUTHOR | TITLE & PUBLICATION INFORMATION |
| 1992 | Inter-Orthodox Conference on Environmental Protection | So That God's Creation Might Live: The Orthodox Church Responds to the Ecological Crisis (Proceedings of the Inter-Orthodox Conference on Environmental Protection held at the Orthodox Academy of Crete, November 1991). Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, 1992. 118 pages. Price p/b £10. No ISBN. Copies available from Dr Dimitri Conomos, 4A Northmoor Road, Oxford. FoMA Review 1995... |
| 1993 | Timothy Ware [Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia] | The Orthodox Church 2nd edition. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993. 359 pages. Price p/b £7.99. ISBN 0-14-014656-3. FoMA Review 1993... |
| 1994 | René Gothóni | Paradise within Reach: Monasticism and Pilgrimage on Mt Athos. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1993. 183 pages. Price h/b US $30.00. ISBN 951-570-158-9. FoMA Review 1994... |
| 1994 | René Gothóni | Tales and Truth: Pilgrimage on Mount Athos Past and Present. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1994. 221 pages. Price h/b US $33.00. ISBN 951-570-215-1. FoMA Review 1995... |
| 1994 | Tom Petsinis | Offerings: Sonnets from Mount Athos. Melbourne, Hill of Content. (Publication supported by the Commonwealth Government, the Australia Council's Arts Funding and Advisory Body.) 101 pp. Price not given. ISBN 0-85572-238-X. (PB). |
| 1994 | Monastery of Philotheou | Athonikes Stigmes. . Mount Athos: Monastery of Philotheou, 1994. 206 pages. About 250 plates. ISBN 960-85453-0-7. Also available in a bilingual (English and German) edition. FoMA Review 1994... |
| 1994 | Ploutarchos Theocharides et al | Greek Traditional Architecture: Mount Athos Athens: Melissa, 1992. Editions in Greek, German, and English. 72 pages. Numerous plates. Price p/b 2930 drachmas. No ISBN. FoMA Review 1994... |
| 1996 | Hieromonk Alexander, ed. | The Living Witness of the Holy Mountain: Contemporary Voices from Mount Athos, Translated with introduction and notes by Hieromonk Alexander (Golitzin). South Canaan, PA: St Tikhon's Seminary Press, 1996. 311 pages. Price p/b £18.75 ISBN 1-878997-48-3. FoMA Review 1996... Available in the UK from Orthodox Christian Book Service, 95 Spencer Street, Birmingham B18 6DA. |
| 1996 | Anthony Bryer and Mary Cunningham, eds. | Mount Athos and Byzantine Monasticism: Papers from the Twenty-Eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1994. Aldershot: Variorum. 278 pp. Price: £39.50. ISBN 0-86078-551-3 (HB). FoMA Review 1997... Available to members of the Friends of Mount Athos at a special price (see the 1997 FoMA Annual Report) |
| 1996 | Archimandrite Vasileios | Beauty and Hesychia in Athonite Life. Translated by Constantine Kokenes. Montreal: Alexander Press. Price: $6.00/£3.75. ISBN 1-896800-00-9. FoMA Review 1996... |
| 1996 | Archimandrite Vasileios | Ecology and Monasticism.. Translated by Constantine Kokenes. Montreal: Alexander Press. Price: $6.00/£3.75. ISBN 1-896800-02-5. FoMA Review 1996... |
| 1996 | Archimandrite Vasileios | Europe and the Holy Mountain. Translated by Constantine Kokenes. Montreal: Alexander Press. Price: $8.00/£5.00. ISBN 1-89800-04-1. FoMA Review 1996... |
| 1996 | Archimandrite Vasileios | Monastic Life as True Marriage. Translated by Elizabeth Theokritoff. Montreal: Alexander Press. Price: $8.00/£5.00. ISBN 1-89800-06-8. FoMA Review 1996... |
| 1996 | Chris Hellier | Monasteries of Greece. London: Tauris Parke Books. 224 pp. Price: £35.00. ISBN 1-85043-264-3 (HB). FoMA Review 1997... |
| 1996 | Ihor Sevcenko and Gennady G. Litavrin, eds. | Acts. XVIIIth International Congress of Byzantine Studies. Selected Papers. 4 volumes. Series: Byzantine Studies/Etudes Byzantines, New Series, Supplementa 1-4. Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.: Byzantine Studies Press, Inc. ISBN 1-891781-03-0 (PB). |
| 1997 | Monachos Gabriel Philotheites | Heaven and Earth. Athos (Greek: Athos. Ouranos kai Ge. Thessaloniki, 2000. Dr. 12,000. ISBN 960-85453-2-3. First of a projected series of five albums of selected photographs with the general title of "Athovision." (Greek, Athorase). The author writes of this project, "Living in this blessed place, I have attempted to give a rendering of all that the Holy Mountain expresses - dimly, perhaps - by means of my camera lens, portraying and capturing fleeting moments and people.... It is an insight from within addressed to the world without. Interpretive comments in Greek and English. The monk-author of this volume is a photographer and wood carver from Philotheou Monastery, and publisher of several prior volumes of photographic art from the Holy Mountain (see above, Glimpses, 1997). Out of Print IMAGE. IMAGE 2 |
| 1997 | Monachos Gabriel Philotheites | Glimpses of the Holy Mountain. Second edition, Thessaloniki, 1997. 88 pp. $18. ISBN 960-85453-2-3. An exhibition of black and white photography capturing glipmses of moments "from the monastic pace of life," and "insights into this black-clad society." Interpretive comments in Greek and English. The monk-author of this volume is a photographer and wood carver from Philotheou Monastery. Out of Print |
| 1997 | Archimandrite George, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Gregorios | The Deification as the Purpose of Man's Life. Mount Athos: Holy Monastery of St. Gregorios. 64 pp. Price not given. ISBN 960-7553-11-X. FoMA Review 1999... |
| 1997 | Archimandrite George, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Gregorios | The Lord's Prayer. Mount Athos: Holy Monastery of St. Gregorios. 46 pp. Price not given. ISBN 960-7553-09-8. FoMA Review 1999... |
| 1997 | Archimandrite George, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Gregorios | Orthodoxos Monachismos kai Agion Oros. 2nd enlarged edition. Mount Athos: Holy Monastery of St. Gregorios. 181 pp. Price not given. ISBN 960-7553-08-X. FoMA Review 1999... |
| 1997 | Petros M. Koufopoulos and Stavros B. Mamaloukos | The Metalwork of Mount Athos from the 18th to the 20th Century (in Greek). Athens: Politistiko Technologiko Idryma ETBA. 335 pp. Price: 10,000 Dr. ISBN 960-244-039-2 (HB). FoMA Review 1998... This book may be obtained ain Athens from Katarti, Mavromihali 9, 10679 Athens (tel. 01-360-1271, fax. 01-360-9697) or in Thessaloniki from O. and S. Ragia, Ermou 44, 54623 Thessaloniki (tel. 031-229010, fax. 031-264420). |
| 1997 | Jennifer Westwood, ed. | Sacred Journeys: Paths for the New Pilgrim. London: Gaia Books. 223 pp. Price: £14.99. ISBN 1-85675-004-3 (PB). FoMA Review 1997... |
| 1998 | Markos Kambanis | The Towers of the Holy Mountain (in Greek). Athens: Armos Editions. 139 pp., 32 linocuts and 20 sketches. Price: 5000 Dr. ISBN 960-527-086-2. FoMA review 1998. This book is also available from the Orthodox Christian Book Service. FoMA Review 1998... |
| 1998 | Elder Joseph the Hesychast | Monastic Wisdom: The Letters of Elder Joseph the Hesychast. Florence, Arizona: St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery. 421 pp. Price £19.95. ISBN 0-9667000 (HB), 0-9667000-1-5 (PB). FoMA Review 1999... |
| 1998 | Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petra | The Synaxarion: The Lives of the Saints of the Orthodox Church, Vol. 1: Introduction, September, October, translated from the original French by Christopher Hookway. Ormylia, Holy Convent of the Annunciation. 550 pp. Price £25 or $40. ISBN 960-85603-7-3 (HB). Available only from the Holy Convent of the Annunciation, Ormylia, Greece GR 630 71. Prices include packing and shipping. FoMA Review 1998... |
| 1998 | Stelios Papadopoulos and Chrysoula Kapioldassi-Soteropoulos, eds. | Icons of the Holy Monastery of Pantokrator. Mount Athos: Holy Monastery of Pantokrator, 1998. 386 pp. Price $120 (HB) FoMA Review 1999... |
| 1998 | Archimandrite Vasileios | Abba Isaac the Syrian: An Approach to his World. (Series: Mount Athos, no. 5) Montreal: Alexander Press. 48 pp. Price £6.25. FoMA Review 1998... |
| 1998 | Archimandrite Vasileios | The Saint: Archetype of Orthodoxy. (Series: Mount Athos, no. 6) Montreal: Alexander Press. 48 pp. Price £6.25. FoMA Review 1998... |
| 1998 | Archimandrite Vasileios | The Christian in a Changing World: Monasticism and the New Realities of Life. (Series: Mount Athos, no. 7) Montreal: Alexander Press. 64 pp. Price £7.50. FoMA Review 1998... |
| 1998 | Archimandrite Vasileios, with Fr. George Mantzarides | The Meaning of Typikon. (Series: Mount Athos, no. 8) Montreal: Alexander Press. 32 pp. Price £5.00. FoMA Review 1998... |
| 1998 | Archimandrite Vasileios | The Parable of the Prodigal Son. (Series: Mount Athos, no. 9) Montreal: Alexander Press. 48 pp. Price £6.25. FoMA Review 1998... |
| 1998 | Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi | Great Monastery of Vatopaidi. Tradition - History - Art,
Edited by the Fathers of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi. Mount Athos, 1998.
Two boxed volumes containing 744 pages, 594 colour plates, over 30 black and white
illustrations, bibliography, index.
Price h/b £145. ISBN 960-7735-10-2 (HB), 0-9667000-1-5 (PB).
This publication is available to members of the Friends of Mount Athos from Zeno's Bookshop,
6 Denmark Street, London WC2H 8LP (tel. and fax 0171 836 2522), at a special price of £110 + p&p.
FoMA Review 1998... |
| 1999 | Archimandrite Aimilianos. | Spiritual Instruction and Discourses, vol. 1: The Authentic Seal. Ormylia, Halkidiki: Ormylia Publishing. 400 pp. Price £20. ISBN 960-85603-3-0 (HB) FoMA Review 1999... |
| 1999 | Elder Ephraim | Counsels from the Holy Mountain: Selected from the Letters and Homilies of Elder Ephraim. Florence, Arizona: St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery. Price: $35 (HB), $22 (PB). FoMA Review 1999... |
| 1999 | Elder Joseph the Hesychast | Elder Joseph the Hesychast: Struggles, Experiences, Teachings. Mount Athos: The Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi, 1999. 231 pp. Price not given. ISBN 960-7735-12-9 (SB). Available in the UK from Orthodox Christian Books Ltd., 7 Townhouse Farm, Alsager Road, Audley, Staffordshire ST7 8JQ. FoMA Review 1999... |
| 1999 | Maria Vassilaki, Ioannis Tavlakis, Euthymios Tsigaridas, eds. | The Holy Monastery of Aghiou Pavlou: The Icons. Mount Athos: Holy Monastery of Aghiou Pavlou. 263 pp. Price: 20,000 Dr. ISBN 960-85542-2-5 (HB) FoMA Review 1999... |
| 1999 | Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petra | The Synaxarion: The Lives of the Saints of the Orthodox
Church: Volume 2: November, December, translated from the French
by ÐChristopher Hookway.
Ormylia, Greece, 1999. 619 pp.
Price h/b £25.00 or US $40.00 (including airmail postage).
ISBN 960-86143-1-7. Available from the Holy Convent of the Annunciation,
Ormylia, Greece GR 630 71, tel. +30237141498, fax +30237198314.
May be ordered in England from Elisabeth Hookway, tel. 01621 819357.
Prices include packing and shipping.
FoMA Review 2000... |
| 1999 | Stelios Papadopoulos, ed. | The Holy Xenophontos Monastery: The Icons. , Mount Athos: The Holy Xenophontos Monastery, 1999. 302 pages. 142 colour illustrations. ISBN 960-86299-1-8. Price h/b $80.00 (including airmail postage). FoMA Review 1999... |
| 2000 | William M. Johnston, ed. | Encyclopedia of Monasticism, 2 volumes. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, Publishers. Over 600 entries and 500 illustrations covering monastic life, art and architecture. Price: not yet announced. ISBN 1-57958-090-4 (HB). Information from: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, tel. 800-850-8102. |
| 2000 | Yota Oikonomaki-Papadopoulou, Brigitte Pitarakis, and Karia Loverdou-Tsigarida | Enkolpia of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi. , Mount Athos: Vatopaidi Monastery, 2000. 395 pages. 310 colour illustrations. ISBN 960-7735-15-3. Price h/b 20,000 drachmas (including airmail postage). FoMA Review 2000... |
| 2002 | Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petra |
The Synaxarion: The Lives of the Saints of the Orthodox Church: Volume 3:
January, February, translated from the French by ÐChristopher Hookway.
Ormylia, Greece, 2001. 664 pp.
Price h/b £25.00 or US $40.00.
ISBN 960-86143-5-X.
Available from the Holy Convent of the Annunciation,
Ormylia, Greece GR 630 71, tel. +30237141498, fax +30237198314.
May be ordered in England from Elisabeth Hookway, tel. 01621 819357.
Prices include packing and shipping.
FoMA Review 2002... |
| 2003 | Graham Speake | Mount Athos. Renewal in Paradise, New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2003. 308 pp., 50 b/w and 100 color illustrations. Cloth $39.95.
ISBN 09353-5.
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| 2004 | Douglas Demetrios Lyttle | Miracle on Monastery Mountain, Greenleaf, 2004. 405 large-format pp., 655 photographs, mostly color. Cloth $100.
ISBN 09747446-0-3.
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| 2005 | Christopher Merrill | Things of the Hidden God. Journey to the Holy Mountain,
Random House, 2005. 280 pp. Cloth $24.95. ISBN 0-679-46305-4. |
Further General Reading
E. Amand de Mendieta, Mount Athos, the Garden of the Panaghia (Berlin/Amsterdam,1972)
R. Byron, The Station. Athos: Treasures and Men (London, 1931; repr. 1984).
R. Gothóni, Paradise Within Reach: Monasticism and Pilgrimage on Mt Athos (Helsinki, 1993).
___ , Tales and Truth: Pilgrimage on Mount Athos Past and Present (Helsinki, 1994).
F.W. Hasluck, Athos and its Monasteries (London, 1924).
S. Kadas, Mount Athos: An Illustrated Guide to the Monasteries and their History (Athens, 1984).
J.J. Norwich and R. Sitwell, Mount Athos (London, 1966).
S. Papadopoulos (ed.), Simonopetra, Mount Athos (Athens, 1991).
P. Sherrard, Athos, the Mountain of Silence (London, 1960).
___ , Athos: The Holy Mountain (London, 1982).
P. Theocharides et al., Greek Traditional Architecture: Mount Athos (Athens, 1992).
T. Ware, The Orthodox Church, 2nd edn. (London, 1993).
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