Orthodox monasticism

• D. J. Chitty, The Desert a City, Oxford, 1966.

• N. F. Robinson, Monasticism in the Orthodox Churches, London, 1916.

• Sister Benedicta Ward (trans.), The Sayings of the Desert Fathers. The Alphabetical Collection,

London, 1975.

• Saint John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, intr. K. Ware, New York, 1982.

Mount Athos

• R. M. Dawkins, The Monks of Athos, London, 1936.

• Cavarnos, Anchored in God, Athens, 1959.

• P. Sherrard, Athos The Holy Mountain, London, 1982.

• E. Amand de Mendieta, Mount Athos: The Garden of the Panaghia, Berlin, 1972.

Icons

• L. Ouspensky and V. Lossky, The Meaning of Icons, Olten, 1952.

• L. Ouspensky, Theology of the Icon, New York, 1978.

• G. Mathew, Byzantine Aesthetics, London, 1963.

• B. Mango, The Art of the Byzantine Empire, New Jersey, 1972.

• S. Runciman, Byzantine Style and Civilization, London, 1975.