Imagining Mount Athos

Kirjan Imagining Mount Athos (2011) on kirjoittanut Veronica della Dora. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut University of Virginia Press. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 328 sivua ja se on sidottu.

Most writing on Athos has focused on its Byzantine history and sacred heritage. Imagining Mount Athos uncovers a set of alternative and largely unexplored perspectives, equally important in the mapping and dissemination of Athos in popular imagination. The author considers Mount Athos as the site of pre-Christian myths of Renaissance and Enlightenment scholarship, of shelter for Allied refugees during the Second World War, and of a botanical and sociological laboratory for early-twentieth-century scientists. Each chapter considers a different narrative channel through which Athos has entered Orthodox and western European imagination: the mythical, the utopian, the sacred, the scholarly, the geopolitical, and the scientific.