Book description
'Compelling, powerful, magnificent' THE TIMES In revealing encounters
with monks, nuns, bishops and archbishops, in monasteries ancient and
modern Victoria Clark measures the depth and width of the gulf now
separating Europe's Orthodox East from the Catholic and Protestant West.
Many of the differences in outlook, priorities and even values can be
traced back to the 1054 schism between the churches of Rome and
Constantinople which created Europe's most durable fault-line.
Travelling from Mount Athos to Istanbul and unravelling the tangled
history, Victoria Clark demonstrates a rare sympathy with Eastern
Orthodox Europe. 'I finished the book wanting to meet this intelligent,
warm-hearted writer, and to follow her to some of the places she
visited' LITERARY REVIEW 'A masterful synthesis of vivid and often
humorous travel writing, a series of probing interviews and a pertinent
historical context' THE TIMES 'Exhilarating . . . her book will be
immensely helpful to anyone occasionally puzzled by events, especially
politics, in Eastern Europe' FINANCIAL TIMES
