About the Author

Jane Chance is professor of English at Rice University. She is the author or editor of many of works in the field of medieval studies, most recently The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England UPF, 1990) and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power, and she serves as series editor for the Focus Library on Medieval Women.

Publication of this book made possible in part by a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.