This volume comprises selected papers of SEM VI to VIII (Studientage Englisches Mittelalter)
held at Jena Bochum and Zurich between 2004 and 2007. It presents a representative
cross-section of topics in the field of English medieval studies in Germany and Switzerland.
The spectrum ranges from philological textual criticism cultural studies centring around the
history of ideas questions of historical writing alliteration and the depiction of the
monstrous in early modern literature to philological and linguistic approaches focussing on
morphology and grammar.
