Tolkien the Medievalist

Edited by Jane Chance

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About the Book

Interdisciplinary in approach, Tolkien the Medievalist provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's Medievalism. In fifteen essays, eminent scholars and new voices explore how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his scholarship on medieval literature to his own personal voice. The four sections reveal the author influenced by his profession, religious faith and important issues of the time; by his relationships with other medievalists; by the medieval sources that he read and taught, and by his own medieval mythologizing.

Table of Contents

Part I: J. R. R. Tolkien as a Medieval Scholar: Modern Contexts
Part II: J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Medieval Literary and Mythological Texts/Contexts
Part III: J. R. R. Tolkien: The Texts/Contexts of Medieval Patristics, Theology, and Iconography
Part IV: J. R. R. Tolkien's Silmarillion Mythodology: Medievalized Retextualization and Theory

About the Author(s)

Jane Chance, Professor of English, teaches medieval literature and J. R. R. Tolkien, at Rice University. Among her seventeen books are Tolkien's Art: A Mythology for England and The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power and two guest-edited issues of Studies in Medievalism. She also edits two series, the Library of Medieval Women and the Greenwood Guide to Historic Events in the Medieval World.