Medieval mountains

Mountain research spotlight: Joanne Anderson

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This post is part of our ‘mountain research spotlights’ series, sharing the work and insights of colleagues working on mountains across the humanities (and beyond).  Name and Institution: Joanne Anderson, University of Aberdeen. Research summary: In broad terms, I study the interaction of the visual culture and experiential dimension of mountain environments in the late medieval … Read more

‘Pagan’ classics, Christians, and a Late Antique world-mountain

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In our first guest post, Douglas Whalin explores the sixth-century Christian author Kosmas Indicopleustes and his cosmological model of the world as, literally, a mountain. Douglas is a social historian of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (approx. 4th to 9th centuries CE). He has a chapter forthcoming in our Mountain Dialogues volume on … Read more

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