Chapter 1 Introduction

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

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

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

Chapter 5 ‘Ecosophic Cartographies’ of Mount Pentelicon

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

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

Chapter 8 A Difficult Line: The Aesthetics of Mountain Climbing 1871–Present

Chapter 9 Untimely Mountains | Entangled Matter

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

Chapter 12 ‘I Lift Up My Eyes to the Hills …’

Chapter 13 Mountains Run Mad: Picturesque Signatures in the Dolomites