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Dalrymple, William

From the Holy Mountain : A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium.

Flamingo, 1997

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Year of publication
1997
ISBN
0006547745
Place of printing
London
Author
Dalrymple, William
Publishers
Flamingo
Edition
Reprint.
Keyword
EGYPT SOPHRONIUS. JOHN MOSCHOS CHRISTIANS MIDDLE EAST CHURCH, GREEK ORTHODOXY MONASTERIES ATHOS TRAVEL CHRISTIANITY BYZANTIUM
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Very Good
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

In 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries, and remote hermitages, collecting the wisdom of the stylites and the desert fathers before their fragile world finally shattered under the great eruption of Islam. More than a thousand years later, using Moschos's writings as his guide, William Dalrymple sets off to retrace their footsteps and composes "an evensong for a dying civilization" --"Kirkus Reviews," 483p. plates (some col) maps on endpapers. bibliography.index