Art Of Cultural Memory

Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. He has published extensively on literature and culture of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and the continuation of these traditions, on medievalism and various aspects of oral culture in the Middle Ages, medieval versification, the genres of the romance and folk ballad, as well as modern fantasy literature.Maria Błaszkiewicz is Member of the Faculty of Modern Languages (The Institute of English Studies), University of Warsaw. Her interests include the diachronic study of the epic, the fantastic in literature, folk and fairy tales, the English oratorio and the novel. Paweł Rutkowski is Lecturer in the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. His academic interests focus on early modern culture in Britain, with an emphasis placed on its religious and supernatural history. He has published on the cultural history of religious movements, witchcraft, ghosts and animals.

• Preface - Part I. Beyond Them is More than Memory – Tolkienian Contexts - Part II. A noble story Worþi to be drawen in memory – Medieval Contexts - Part III. A wind of memory murmuring the past — Modern Contexts - Part IV. Any memory’s a precious thing – Fantasy Contexts.