Mountains, Mobilities and Movement

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction

   • Emily Goetsch, Christos Kakalis

   Pages 1-12

3. Performativity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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

      • Jonathan Pitches

      Pages 15-35

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

      • Christos Kakalis

      Pages 37-57

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

      • Emily Goetsch

      Pages 59-79

   5. ‘Ecosophic Cartographies’ of Mount Pentelicon

      • Maria Mitsoula

      Pages 81-103

4. Changing Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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

      • Andrew Paterson

      Pages 107-128

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

      • Bernard Debarbieux

      Pages 129-153

   4. A Difficult Line: The Aesthetics of Mountain Climbing 1871–Present

      • Anja-Karina Nydal

      Pages 155-170

   5. Untimely Mountains | Entangled Matter

      • Kim W. Wilson

      Pages 171-186

5. Mobility

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. Mountains as a Way of Seeing: From Mount of Temptation to Mont Blanc

      • Veronica della Dora

      Pages 189-211

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

      • Carlos Cornejo-Nieto

      Pages 213-235

   4. ‘I Lift Up My Eyes to the Hills …’

      • George Pattison

      Pages 237-254

   5. Mountains Run Mad: Picturesque Signatures in the Dolomites

      • William Bainbridge

      Pages 255-283

6. Back Matter

   Pages 285-290

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This book explores the moving qualities of mountains by utilising theories, ideas and processes which contribute to a larger understanding of these geological forms. In highlighting the fluid attributes of mountains the authors offer an alternative to the traditional approach of the sciences and the humanities, which address mountains as static geological or geographical features. The essays in this collection posit that movement impacts the relationship between society and mountains – travelling landscape objects, constructing design and artistic translations, climbing and experiencing changing atmospheres and the different ways of seeing from mountain peaks – and that physical, intellectual and spiritual motion is integral to their understanding. This innovative collection will be of great interest to scholars of geography, art, architecture, history, theology and philosophy.

• performative dynamics of mountains
• Mount Athos
• sacred landscape
• medieval Iberia
• Mountain and the Urban Landscape
• marble quarries culture
• cartography
• Byzantine iconography
• Niddry bing
• travelling landscape objects
• 19th century geographic imagination
• Heidegger
• Ruskin

“Mountains, Mobilities and Movement brings together scholars, arts practitioners, and other professionals to help readers see mountains in new ways. The picture on the cover is of the Matterhorn, an iconic, unmistakable mountain steeped in mountaineering history. If any mountain is unmovable, unchangeable in readers’ minds, it is this one. It is a testament to the innovation of this collection of essays that, for some readers, the Matterhorn may now appear moveable.” (Katherine E. Ledford, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 38 (2), May, 2018)

• School of Architecture, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

  Christos Kakalis

• History of Art Department, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  Emily Goetsch

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. 

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