Land of the Virgin Mary : an ethnography of monastic life on Mount Athos
This thesis is an ethnographic account of contemporary monastic life in two monasteries of Mount Athos, the ‘Garden of the Virgin Mary’ (o kipos tis Parthenou). Athos is an autonomous Christian Orthodox monastic republic of twenty monasteries with only male monks, situated in northern Greece. The ma...
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Goldsmiths College (University of London)
2010
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.524923 |