Nikolas Bakirtzis

Widely recognised as an important example of late Byzantine monasticism in the Balkans, the monastery of Agios Ioannis Prodromos on Mount Menoikeion near the city of Serres in Northern Greece provides an instructive paradigm for the ways monastic tradition framed the foundation, refoundation, and architectural development of monasteries in the Byzantine and post-Byzantine period. Architecture and Sacred Landscape in Byzantium...