CLARK, Victoria.
Title | Why Angels Fall: A Portrait of Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo. |
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Publisher | London Macmillan |
Date | 2000 |
Book ID | 38720 |
First Edition |
Description
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.
Price:
£12.00