Graham Speake is a scholar of Byzantine and Orthodox studies, and this Yale University Press book is his standard history of Mount Athos, the self-governing Orthodox Christian monastic community, tracing its long institutional history and its notable modern revival after decades of decline. Its strength is that Speake combines historical depth with direct familiarity with the mountain's monasteries, giving the account of the recent revival particular credibility. Its limit is that as a general history it covers many centuries and twenty monasteries at a survey level, so a claim needing detailed treatment of one specific monastery's own history is better served by a source focused on that single house.
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Published by Yale University Press as Graham Speake's standard scholarly history of Mount Athos, peer reviewed university press scholarship. NotesHistory of Mount Athos, the Orthodox Christian monastic community, and its modern religious revival.
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AuthorGraham Speake
PublisherYale University Press
Publication Year2002
Source Typebook
Claims Backed By This Source (26 claims)
This source backs 26 claims across the atlas. As facts: 21 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sacred Sites, 13 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Sacred Objects & Ritual Items, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
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21Sacred Objects & Ritual Items
Holds
3Sacred Objects & Ritual Items
General References
2Sacred Objects & Ritual Items
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