ロマンティックな風景 : ソールズベリ平原の遺跡とその現在
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This paper explores the historical and cultural dimensions of the ancient remains in Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, examining Wordsworth's "Salisbury Plain" and Constable's philosophy concerning landscape. There are many prehistoric sites in Salisbury Plain, and Stonehenge is most famous. From the late 17^<th> century, the ancient remains in Salisbury Plain began to draw public interests to create controversies over the remains and British people's cultural origins. About Stonehenge various legends and beliefs have been created, and the lasting belief that it was one of the altars of the Druids influenced what Wordsworth depicted about the place. As one of the legislative centers of the West England, Old Sarum flourished in the 12^<th> century, yet after the church moved to Salisbury (New Sarum) in the 13^<th> century, it became desolate and uninhabited. Constable's "Old Sarum" highlights the romantic landscape image in which the presence of the ruined city with historical importance is crystallized into the minute visual description of light and clouds. With these ancient remains, Avebury, a prehistoric site with stone circles in the north of the Plain, shows the historical process of destruction and preservation of remains. The present states of these remains are also introduced, describing how the National Trust and English Heritage take part in the protection of the environment relating to the remains. Thus to examine these historic sites in Salisbury Plain enables us to consider, with a view to the present age, the cultural layers from which the English romanticism came about and in which its contemporary relevance could be discovered.
- 2006-02-28