Athos and Its Monasteries

CONTENTS

AUTHOR'S PREFACE . . . . . . . v
EDITORIAL PREFACE . . . . . . . vii
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . . . . . . xi–xii

PART I

HISTORY AND MONASTIC SYSTEM

CHAPTER
I. ATHOS AND THE WAY THITHER . . . 3
II. EARLY HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MONASTIC SYSTEM ON ATHOS . . . 9
III. THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE TURKISH CONQUEST . . . . . . . 22
IV. THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES 31
V. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY . . . . 36
VI. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . . . . 44
VII. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . . . . 49
VIII. ADMINISTRATION OF ATHOS AND THE MONASTERIES IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY 67
IX. THE MONASTERY ARCHITECTURALLY CONSIDERED . . . . . . . 92

PART II

DESCRIPTION OF THE TWENTY SOVEREIGN MONASTERIES: THEIR HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE

X. XEROPOTAMOU . . . . . . . 115
XI. ST. PANTELEËMON'S ('RUSSIKÒ') . . . 122