Author: CLARK, Victoria.
Title: Why Angels Fall: A Portrait of Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo.
Description: London, Macmillan, 2000. Hardback in original illustrated dust-wrapper, xviii[ii]+460pp. 24 b/w plates (photographs). A very good copy, almost as new but some light foxing to upper fore-edge. Dust-wrapper excellent. Travelling from Mount Athos to Istanbul and unravelling the tangled historythrough revealing encounters with monks, nuns, bishops and archbishops, in monasteries ancient and modern, Victoria Clark demonstrates a rare sympathy with Eastern Orthodox Europe.

Keywords: Balkans|Featured|Yugoslavia|Byzantium|Religion


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