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Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language , 2007

Lakowski, Romuald "'Perilously Fair': Titania, Galadriel and the Fairy Queen of Medieval Romance.... more Lakowski, Romuald
"'Perilously Fair': Titania, Galadriel and the Fairy Queen of Medieval Romance." Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language Edited by Janet Croft. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 2007.
60–78.

The Mirror Crack'd: Fear and Horror in J.R.R. Tolkien's Major Works., 2008

Lakowski,Romuald "'Horror and Anguish': The Slaying of Glaurung and Medieval Literature." The Mi... more Lakowski,Romuald
"'Horror and Anguish': The Slaying of Glaurung and Medieval Literature."
The Mirror Crack'd: Fear and Horror in J.R.R. Tolkien's Major Works.
Edited by Lynn Forest-Hill. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 151–168.

The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference, 2008

"Tolkien's Love Triangle: Aragorn's Relationship with Éowyn and Arwen." The Ring Goes Ever On: Pr... more "Tolkien's Love Triangle: Aragorn's Relationship with Éowyn and Arwen." The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference. Celebrating 50 Years of The Lord of the Rings. Ed. Sarah Wells. 2 Vols. Cheltenham, UK: The Tolkien Society, 2008. 1: 305–15.

In this paper I will examine Tolkien's treatment of dragons in his writings for children (excludi... more In this paper I will examine Tolkien's treatment of dragons in his writings for children (excluding the Hobbit), starting briefly with his "Lecture on Dragons" (which will be contrasted with Tolkien's Beowulf essay) and then going on to discuss the treatment of the Sea Serpent and the White Dragon in Roverandom, and of Chrysophylax in Farmer Giles of Ham. I will also be looking at medieval and renaissance parallels in Beowulf and the Volsunga Saga and Book I of Spenser's Fairie Queene, as possible sources for the largely comic treatment of dragons in the works I am considering. As is well known, Tolkien's interest in dragons began as a child when he first read the story of Sigurd and the Volsungs in Andrew Lang's The Red Fairy Book. He was even inspired to write a story in verse about "a green great dragon" when he was about six or seven: "I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but...

Moreana, 2009

More makes many references to the “Orient” in his writings. A consistent view of More’s “Oriental... more More makes many references to the “Orient” in his writings. A consistent view of More’s “Orientalism”, which reveals a strong interest in the existence of Eastern Christians, can be obtained from examining the evidence of scattered references to “the East” in More’s Collected Works (mostly written after Utopia), particularly to “Ethiopia”, the “Men of Inde” and the “Land of Prester John”. These references indicate that even almost twenty years after Utopia was published, More was still referring to the Orient in essentially medieval terms: that far from being an exception, More’s geographical world view was essentially similar to that of his more educated contemporaries, and that the discovery of the America had only a very “blunted impact” on More’s geographical understanding. Further evidence of the More Circle’s interest in Eastern Christians is provided by John More’s 1533 Preface to his translation of Damião de Góis’s Legacy of Prester John.

Moreana, 2015

In this paper I would like to suggest various ways in which “Digital Humanities” or “Humanities C... more In this paper I would like to suggest various ways in which “Digital Humanities” or “Humanities Computing,” could change the whole field of Thomas More Studies in the future. I will begin by discussing a couple of existing projects that I am already working on and go on to propose a couple of other potential projects, that are at the ideas or early planning stages, both of which would require extensive collaboration. These four projects are: 1) a TEI-encoded digital edition of Thomas More’s English Poetry, 2) the International Thomas More Bibliography, 3) a proposal for a collaborative edition of Thomas More’s Utopia including an extensive commentary, and 4) an electronic archive or database of all of Thomas More’s “letters and papers,” including the trial documents and important contemporary references.

Renaissance Forum (Online), 1999

Moreana, 2016

Thomas More had an extensive knowledge of Renaissance science and mathematics. He was a keen amat... more Thomas More had an extensive knowledge of Renaissance science and mathematics. He was a keen amateur astronomer, and at one point even gave Henry VIII lessons in astronomy. He also had a keen interest in physical geography and was familiar with the more popular Medieval authors of geographical and astronomical theory. Like More, the Utopians show a keen interest in astronomy, and in the climate, weather and tides, but repudiate astrology completely. More also took a keen interest in mathematics. Two of More’s editions of Euclid still survive. The attitude to Nature in Utopia can truly be described as proto-scientific.

Mythlore 34:1 (Fall/Winter) 2015: 83-103.

Mythlore 90 (23:4) (2002): 22-35.

Mythprint, #337, 5-6, Aug 2010

Moreana 50:191/192: 285–290, Jun 2013