This book offers something new, a full-length study of printing Anglo-Saxon (Old English) from 1566 to 1705, combining analysis of content and form of productio

An introductory guide provides a concise overview of medieval literature and its context.

The book concludes that the opening up and ordering of the English literary past occurs earlier than is generally supposed; and the same also applies to the pro

Thomas Anthony Birrell (1924-2011) was a man of many parts. For most of his working life he was Professor of English Literature in the University of Nijmegen, T