A collection of fresh essays examining the wide scope and significance of early Germanic culture and literature. The first volume of this set views the developm

'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.

This book presents linguistic evidence for many aspects of pre-Christian and early medieval European culture.

Even a casual perusal of seventeenth-century European print production makes clear that the Turk was on everyone’s mind. Europe’s confrontation of and inter

This accessible introductory reference source surveys the linguistic and cultural background of the earliest known Germanic languages and examines their similar