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To celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the publication of Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (16 October 1950), the editors of this volume have invited contributions that aim at critically reflecting upon the similarities and, no less importantly, the differences in the two writers' approaches to the works that came to impregnate their vivid imaginations. The thematic axis of the papers is, therefore, Lewis's best-known work of fiction, The Chronicles of Narnia, either as a whole or as a selection of individual volumes and/or episodes set in the World Beyond the Wardrobe, always, however, in connection with Tolkien's own (sub)creative projects and deal with such diverse fields of academic research as literature, theology, philosophy etc.

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Lukasz Neubauer received his PhD in English philology from the University of L�dź. He is a researcher and lecturer at the Koszalin University of Technology, Poland, where he has taught courses on J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, Old English literature, and Arthurian romances. Apart from his publications dealing with various medieval as well as Christian influences and resonances in The Lord of the Rings, he has written papers on The Battle of Maldon, Beowulf, H�liand, Icelandic sagas and the so-called 'beasts of battle' trope in, particularly but not exclusively, Old Germanic poetry. His most recent publications include Middle-earth, or There and Back Again, a collection of essays written by a group of Polish scholars, and a monograph The Long Shadow of F�fnir: Dragons in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. A Christian Perspective. Guglielmo Spirito is a Conventual Franciscan friar, and works and lives in Assisi. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1958 and studied Philosophy and Egyptology before joining the Order of Saint Francis. In Rome he obtained the Degree (Licenza) in Pastoral Theology of Health Care at the Camillianum and the Doctorate in Theology (PhD) with specialization in Spirituality at the Antonianum. He is professor at the Theological Institute of Assisi (ITA, aggregate at the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Lateran University) and at the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome. He gives courses, lectures, spiritual exercises and retreats mainly in Italy, England, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Russia, Greece and the Holy Land. He had published essays, articles and books in Italian, Spanish, Polish and English.

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