Chilandar

by Dimitrije Bogdanović, Vojislav J. Djurić, & Dejan Medaković

Chilandar Monastery is the oldest a nd r ichest tr easury of Ser bia n medieval history and culture. This volume is an introduction, by text and photograph, to the Athonite world of Chilandar Monastery. The authors, leading specialists in their fields, write for a wide reading public who may be confident in their interpretation of the facts, an immense trove accumulated over eight centuries of Balkan history. While many treasures of Mount Athos over the centuries have been plundered or destroyed by fire, Chilandar is one of the best preserved. As with much of the Athonite experience, the encounter of a distant past through its presence in this time provides a feeling of continuity linking the present with that past, something that is a quintessential part of Orthodox life: a “living Tradition, a Tradition which is both ancient and contemporary” (Paul Ladouceur).

Cover type: Hard
221 pages
Edition #1 published in 2003 by The Monastery of St Nocholas Anapafsas .
ISBN: 86-7413-105-0