{"id":1528,"date":"2023-05-24T14:06:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T18:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2025-06-05T11:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:23:37","slug":"emeritus-professor-robert-allison-publishes-on-the-monasteries-of-mount-athos-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/2023\/05\/24\/emeritus-professor-robert-allison-publishes-on-the-monasteries-of-mount-athos-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Emeritus Professor Robert Allison Publishes on the Monasteries of Mount Athos, Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/files\/2023\/05\/Bob-Allison-Image.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/files\/2023\/05\/Bob-Allison-Image.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1530\" width=\"673\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/files\/2023\/05\/Bob-Allison-Image.webp 897w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/files\/2023\/05\/Bob-Allison-Image-400x254.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/files\/2023\/05\/Bob-Allison-Image-768x488.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/files\/2023\/05\/Bob-Allison-Image-200x127.webp 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Philotheou Monastery, drawing by Vasily Grigorovich-Barsky, 1744 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:9px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Emeritus Professor Robert Allison has three forthcoming publications relating to the monastic community of Mount Athos, Greece (the &#8220;Holy Mountain&#8221;):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The first of these, &#8220;Libraries, Book Production, and Archives,&#8221; surveys the monastic libraries and archives of Mount Athos, which contain the largest collection of Greek manuscripts worldwide. These sites also feature Bulgarian, Georgian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Turkish, Arabic, and Latin manuscripts, as well as early printed books. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The next publication, &#8220;A Method for Full Description of Greek Manuscript Akolouthies and Service Books,&#8221; proposes a method for analyzing and describing orthodox service books. The service books were a key resource for middle and late Byzantine poetry and music.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finally, &#8220;The Lavra of Pteris and the Origins of Philotheou Monastery&#8221; addresses the early beginnings of the Philotheou Monastery. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:11px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Professor Allison for these important contributions! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emeritus Professor Robert Allison has three forthcoming publications relating to the monastic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1572,"featured_media":1530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":true,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}