Mountains, Mobilities and Movement

1. Introduction
Emily Goetsch, Christos Kakalis

Part 1. Performativity

2. Deep and Dark Play in the Alps: Daring Acts and Their Retelling
Jonathan Pitches

3. In the Shadow of the Mountain: Tracing the Hesychast Inhabitation of Mount Athos
Christos Kakalis

4. Reading Mountains: Performative Visual Language in Tenth-Century Northern Iberian Monastic Communities
Emily Goetsch

5. ‘Ecosophic Cartographies’ of Mount Pentelicon
Maria Mitsoula

Part 2. Changing Perspectives

6. Climbing the Invisible Mountain: The Apse Mosaics of St. Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, and Their Sixth-Century Viewers
Andrew Paterson

7. How Can One Be a ‘Montagnard’? Social and Political Expressions of Modern Imaginaries of Territoriality
Bernard Debarbieux

8. A Difficult Line: The Aesthetics of Mountain Climbing 1871–Present
Anja-Karina Nydal

9. Untimely Mountains | Entangled Matter
Kim W. Wilson

Part 3. Mobility

10. Mountains as a Way of Seeing: From Mount of Temptation to Mont Blanc
Veronica della Dora

11. Representing the Landscape of the Sierra Nevada (Granada): A ‘Translated’ Mountain of Reception of the Nineteenth-Century Alpine Geographical Imaginations
Carlos Cornejo-Nieto

12. ‘I Lift Up My Eyes to the Hills …’
George Pattison

13. Mountains Run Mad: Picturesque Signatures in the Dolomites
William Bainbridge

Keywords: Social Sciences, Human Geography, Environmental Sociology, Philosophy of Nature, Landscape Architecture