Table of Contents

Preface Part 1 1. Introduction 2. Describing Language 3. Old English 4. Middle English 5. Early Modern English Part 2 A. Old English Texts B. Middle English Texts C. Early Modern English Part 3 Annotated Bibliography. Old English Glossary. Grammatical Index

About the Author

Jeremy Smith is Reader in English Language at the University of Glasgow and has been actively teaching Early English for 20 years. He is the author of An Historical Study of English (1996)

Reviews

'A godsend to anyone who wants to read and understand texts in more than just one older period of English. This is a highly readable, improved and enlarged second edition.' - Olga Fischer, University of Amsterdam'It's engaging approach, its unpretentious scholarship, and its lucid exposition of a broad and complex subject, recommend it as a fine textbook for anyone seeking to understand, both the history of the language, and how the linguistic and the literary interconnect in Early English writing.' - Catherine Batt, University of Leeds, UK