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International Congress on Medieval Studies

2022

57^th International Congress on Medieval Studies

№ 121: Medieval understandings of the nature of evil as depicted by J.R.R. Tolkien

10 May 2022 17:00 utc — view in local time

organizer: Michael Wodzak, Associate Professor, Viterbo University
presider: Michael Wodzak, Associate Professor, Viterbo University

[From draft program.]

Papers

№ 1: The cosmic catastrophe of history: Augustinian theology of history and patristic angelology in Tolkien’s “Long defeat”

Edmund Michael Lazzari, Marquette University

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№ 2: Dante’s Paradiso and the Fall of Melkor: Tolkien’s preoccupations with culpability and purgation

Michael David Elam

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№ 3: A clamorous unison: Musical evil in the Middle Ages and the Ainulindalë

Joshua T. Parks

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