Ebook: English and Medieval Studies, Presented to J. R. R. Tolkien on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday

Professor J. R. R. Tolkien retired in 1959 from the Merton Professorship of English language and Literature in the University of Oxford, which he had held since 1945. Before that he had been Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford and Professor of the English Language in the University of Leeds.

In recognition of the great contributions to English philology and medieval literature that he made over this long period, twenty-two former pupils, friends and colleagues from this county and abroad have combined to offer him a volume of studies in honour of his seventieth birthday in 1962.

The essays mainly deal with subjects close to his own interests – the character and the metre of Old English poetry, the 'Ancrene Riwle', 'Piers Plowman', Chaucer, various more general aspects of medieval literature, and some of the links between Old Norse and English.