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Mount Athos. Microcosm of the Christian East . Edited by Graham Speake and Kallistos Ware. Pp. ix+216. Oxford–Bern: Peter Lang, 2012. £30 (paper). 978 3 03911 995 0

medieval society. The implications of this thesis are not only in reassessing teleological arguments that link the ‘Augustinian renaissance’ with the Reformation, but also in assisting contemporary scholarship to get a firmer fix on the immensely complicated reception history of Augustine in the Middle Ages, the ways that reception history is tied up in the social and political rivalries of the mendicant orders, and providing clarification on the discipline of intellectual history itself. Taken together, the books of Geltner and Saak provide compelling histories that revise, reframe and reinvigorate the study of the mendicant orders in the Middle Ages. Both are well aware that they are wading into deep traditions of scholarship, are deeply versed in the literature yet nimbly interdisciplinary, and yet are appropriately realistic in their ambitions. They will be most useful to fellow specialists or upper graduate level students.