Medieval ideas about the spiritual realm

Croaker

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Years ago, when I first came across your lectures, you said something like you introduced your Medieval literature students to LotR because Tolkien wrote from a medieval mindset and it was helpful for your students to read Tolkien before jumping into medieval texts. Do you still think this? When the narrator describes the spiritual nature of characters (and other things), does the narrator adopt a Platonic perspective of spiritual things, a Hebraic/biblical perspective, or is the medieval mindset a mixture of both?

(I know the some would read the NT as more Plato and less Hebrew from a mindset perspective, but how did the medieval and more importantly, Tolkien, think of it and write from it?)

Ah, maybe this is a Mythmoot paper topic.
 
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