Tolkien the Medievalist [Paperback]

Interdisciplinary in approach, Tolkien the Medievalistprovides 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.Part I: J. R. R. Tolkien as a Medieval Scholar: Modern Contexts
Part II: J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Ringsand 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 TheoryThe..essays&[are] remarkable for their originality and thoroughness and are important contributions to the study of Tolkiens rhetorical artistry& [the] result is a handsomely and carefully edited book that is worth reading andin my casere-reading. Thomas Honegger,  Friedrich-Schiller-UniversityJane 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 Englandand The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Powerand 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.