Monastic Traditions represents the selected proceedings of the Fourth International Hilandar Conference, held 14-15 August 1998 on the campus of The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, as part of the worldwide commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the founding of Hilandar Monastery on Mount Athos, Greece.1998 was also the 20th anniversary of the Hilandar Research Library, a special collection of the Ohio State University libraries that originated with and houses microfilms of the Slavic manuscripts of Hilandar Monastery, as well as microforms of Cyrillic manuscripts from over 100 other collections.