(Scholars and Scholarship on Mount Athos)

Kriton Chrysochoidis, Zisis Melissakis, Dimitris Chatzimichail, Phaedon Chatziantoniou, Ioakeim Papangelos

Edition 2013, 221 pages, dimensions 25 Χ 21 εκ., ISBN: 978-618-80861-2-8, price: 20,00 euros

The catalogue of the exhibition of the same name. A publication of particular interest and importance as, apart from the extensive information and visual material that it provides, it also includes five texts especially written for the occasion by well-known scholars and researchers which deal with crucial aspects of scholarship on Mount Athos:

• ‘Leading Scholars’ by Kriton Chrysochoidis
• ‘The Monastic Libraries: Testaments to Worship and Scholarship. Living Organisms and Repositories of Treasures’ by Zisis Melissakis
• ‘Printed Books in the Libraries of Mount Athos’ by Dimitris Chatzimichail
• ‘Printing Houses – Bookbinders’ by Phaedon Chatziantoniou
• ‘A History of the Athonias Ecclesiastical Academy’ by Ioakeim Papangelos

This book was published as part of the parallel events held during the 8^th International Conference of the Mount Athos Center on the theme ‘Mount Athos and Scholarship’, which formed part of the project entitled ”The Great Intellectual and Cultural Legacy of Mount Athos”, under the Operational Programme ‘Macedonia–Thrace 2007-2013’ of the Intermediate Managing Authority of Central Macedonia.