By Catherine A.M. Clarke
In its exploration of literary representations of excellent landscapes and the construction of English identification throughout Latin and vernacular texts from Bede to Chaucer, this research seems to be specifically at pastoral and locus amoenus traditions in Medieval English literature, and the early mythologisation of English panorama, house and id via pastoral topoi. From Bede's Ecclesiastical heritage and its seminal interpretation of england because the pleasant island, the examine strikes via representations of panorama in previous English poetry to the exploitation of the symbolic strength in their neighborhood landscapes by way of nearby monastic homes in 12th- and thirteenth-century texts and pastoral conventions, performances and the belief of town within the fourteenth century. Introductory and concluding sections shape bridges to present scholarship on representations of Englishness via pastoral topoi within the Early glossy interval. Catherine A.M. Clarke is Professor of English, college of Southampton.
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