Mountains, Mobilities and Movement

Preface; Tim Ingold.- Introduction; Emily Goetsch and Christos Kakalis.- Part 1 Performativity.- Chapter One: Deep and Dark Play in the Alps: Daring Acts and their Retelling; Jonathan Pitches.- Chapter Two: In the Shadow of the Mountain: Tracing the Hesychast Inhabitation of Mount Athos; Christos Kakalis.- Chapter Three: Reading Mountains: Performative Visual Language in 10th century Northern Iberian Monastic Communities; Emily Goetsch.- Chapter Four: 'Ecosophic Cartographies' of Mount Pentelicon; Maria Mitsoula.- Part 2 Changing Perspectives.- Chapter Five: Climbing the Invisible Mountain: The Apse Mosaics at St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinai and their Sixth Century Viewers; Andrew Paterson.- Chapter Six: How can be a 'Montagnard'? Social and Political Expressions of Modern Imaginaries of Territoriality; Bernard Debarbieux.- Chapter Seven: A Difficult Line. The Aesthetics of Mountain Climbing 1871 - Present; Anja-Karina Nydal.- Chapter Eight: Untimely Mountains / Entangled Matter; Kim W. Wilson.- Part 3 Mobility.- Chapter Nine: Mountains as a way of seeing: From Mount of Temptation to Mont Blanc; Veronica della Dora.- Chapter Ten: Representing the Landscape of the Sierra Nevada (Granada): A 'Translated' Mountain of Reception of the 19th Century Alpine Geographical Imaginations; Carlos Cornejo-Nieto.- Chapter Eleven: 'I Lift up My Eyes to the Hills...'; George Pattison.- Chapter Twelve: Mountains Run Mad: Picturesque Signatures in the Dolomites; William Bainbridge.

Emily Goetsch teaches in History of Art and Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her research examines early medieval manuscript traditions, with a focus on Iberia.
Chistos Kakalis is a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Newcastle, UK. His research explores the role of bodily perception in diverse architectural settings focusing on the significance of the atmosphere.