Tolkien the Medievalist

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.

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

‘The..essays…[are] remarkable for their originality and thoroughness and are important contributions to the study of Tolkien’s rhetorical artistry… [the] result is a handsomely and carefully edited book that is worth reading and—in my case—re-reading.’ – Thomas Honegger, Friedrich-Schiller-University