The books you will find on this site are mainly, but not exclusively, concerned with the forms and expressions of Greek life and culture that emerged during the post-Byzantine period while still remaining deeply rooted in the spiritual inheritance of Greek Christendom. This life and culture is often identified by the enigmatic word Romiosyni, which derives from the connection of the Greeks with 'new Rome' — Constantinople — and the Eastern Roman Empire. People who dwelt within this Empire called themselves Romioi — Romans — hence Romiosyni, which in a non-nationalistic sense could be rendered as Hellenism. It is for this reason that many of books on this site have been published within the encompass of what is called 'The Romiosyni Series'. Romiosyni is a word that has both historical and emotional connotations and expresses for the modern Greek a particular aspect of his national identity. Historically, this identity was not limited to a political, racial or territorial boundary, and this sense of nationality depended more on the sharing of a certain milieu, almost a state of mind, than on anything else.
All the books on this site have been produced in Greece and particular care has been taken with regard to their design, quality and durability, and they have sewn pages so they will not come apart after being read many times.
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Our most recent publications
Alexandros Papadiamandis
The Murderess
A new translation of Papadiamandis's classic work, published to mark the centenary of his death. more
Juliet du Boulay
Cosmos, Life, and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village
Winner of the 2010 Runciman Award
moreVassa Solomou Xanthaki
The Marriage
Vassa Solomou Xanthaki’s novella The Marriage is considered to be a small classic of Greek literature, a work that is distinguished by the immediacy and freshness of its language while retaining a deep sensibility to traditional life in rural Greece. First published in 1975, it has been reprinted in Greek numerous times and is inc... more
Philip Sherrard
Church, Papacy, and Schism
The union of the Churches is one of the crucial issues of our time. Yet it is often forgotten that any discussion about it must begin with an understanding of what the Church itself is. Before one can talk of healing the schism, one must know what lies at its root. This book focuses on such central questions. It is a unique and unprecedented c... more
Hieromonk Gregorios
The Divine Liturgy
The Divine Liturgy was first published in Greece in 1982 (by the theological journal ‘Synaxi’) since when it has been continuously in print and there have been four new editions. From 1993 it has been published by the Cell of St John the Theologian, Koutloumousiou Monastery, Mount Athos. This translation into English has bee... more
Forthcoming
Zissimos Lorenzatos
Aegean Notebooks
Between the years of 1974 and 1981 Lorenzatos went sailing in the Aegean with his friend, Captain Yorgos, and kept notebooks of his reflections while on these journeys. These notebooks were first published in Greek in 1983, under the title Στοῦ Τιμονιοῦ τὸ Αὐλάκι [In the Wake of the Rudder]. This is the third book only to appear in English by one of Greece's most distinguished man of letters.
moreGeorge Serferis & Philip Sherrard
This Dialectic of Blood and Light
Philip Sherrard first came across George Seferis's poetry when as a young man still in the army he was transferred to Greece in 1946. It made such a powerful impression on him that when he returned to England he started corresponding with Seferis, began translating his poetry into English, and ultimately decided to do his PhD on modern Greek poetry. Much later Sherrard was to translate, together with Edmund Keeley, Seferis's Collected Poems for Princeton University Press. The Seferis - Sherrard correspondence is not vast, but nevertheless revealing of both men's orientation, most particularly Sherrard's as he became increasingly interested in the Christian Orthodox East, and who simultaneously with his involvement in Greek literature and especially modern Greek poetry went on to write a number of important theological studies. Included with the correspondence are the texts that the two men sent to each other and three studies of Seferis's poetry written by Sherrard, the one published here for the first time. The book is introduced by the Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek at Oxford, Peter Mackridge, and the theologian Vincent Rossi.
moreMary Jaqueline Tyrwhitt
Making a Garden on a Greek Hillside
An amended edition of this now classic book about gardening in Greece, an essential read for all water-conscious people who live in similar Mediterranean climates, will be available in Spring 2012. more