Proposed research title(s) History, 'Weird Time', and the Subterranean in Britain, c. 1100-1400

我的研究旨在调查中世纪文学中一个奇怪的主题，跨越流派，其中地下，洞穴或埋藏的空间与扭曲或异步的时间体验有关。关于洞穴和空洞的故事比比皆是，在这些地方，时间似乎过得比地表世界更慢;关于救世主般的国王，比如亚瑟，他在空洞的山脉中“假死”地沉睡，直到被召唤去拯救他们的人民;还有一些场景，人物进入墓穴、手推车或地下通道，在那里面对被遗忘的过去的遗迹。提供一个生态批判的阅读这些文本，我将期待前景这些地下空间作为中世纪的网站，什么文学学者称为“怪异的时间”，时刻，希腊人或占主导地位的时间理解是由干扰，外来的持续时间的替代时间性侵入。这个“主导”时代和历史的概念引出了我的项目的关键，调查了在盎格鲁-诺曼历史写作和政治预言中，地下空间在英国过去和未来的“殖民”话语中被简化的情况。在这里，地下空间的暂时性也经常被唤起，以便在地理上和英国历史上使英国的下层政治实体化。

My research looks to investigate a curious motif in literatures of the Middle Ages, spanning genres, in whichsubterranean, cavernous, or buried spaces are associated with warped or asynchronous experiences of time. Storiesabound of caves and hollows in which time seems to pass more slowly than on the surface world; of messianic kingssuch as Arthur, who sleep in 'suspended animation' within hollow mountains until called upon to save their people; andinstances in which figures journey into crypts, barrows, or underground passageways, there confronting relics of theforgotten past. Providing an ecocritical reading of these texts, I will look to foreground these underground spaces asmediaeval sites of what literary scholars have referred to as 'weird time', moments where quotidian or dominantunderstandings of time are intruded upon by alternative temporalities of disturbing, alien duration. This notion of'dominant' times and histories introduces the crux of my project, investigating instances where the subterranean isimplicated in 'colonial' discourses of the British past and future in Anglo-Norman history writing and political prophecy.Here underground spaces are often figured as sites of encounter between the English present and relics of the Welsh,Anglo-Saxon and British past; and here, too, the atemporality of subterranean space is often evoked in order tomarginalise the subaltern polities of Britain both geographically and within British history.