Pastoral and locus amoenus traditions in Medieval English
literature, and the early mythologisation of English landscape,
space and identity through pastoral topoi. In its exploration of
literary representations of ideal landscapes and the production of
English identity across Latin and vernacular texts from Bede to
Chaucer, this study looks in particular at pastoral and locus
amoenustraditions in Medieval English literature, and the early
mythologisation of English landscape, space and identity through
pastoral topoi. From Bede's Ecclesiastical History and its seminal
interpretation of Britain as thedelightful island, the study moves
through representations of landscape in Old English poetry to the
exploitation of the symbolic potential of their local landscapes by
regional monastic houses in twelfth- and thirteenth-century texts
and pastoral conventions, performances and the idea of the city in
the fourteenth century. Introductory and concluding sections form
bridges to current scholarship on representations of Englishness
through pastoral topoi in the Early Modern period. Catherine A.M.
Clarke is Professor of English, University of Southampton.
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