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The Paperback Edition, In Four Volumes, Of This Standard Work Will Make It Readily Available To Students. The Scope Of The Work Makes It Valuable As A Work Of Reference, Connecting One Period With Another And Placing Each Author Clearly In The Setting Of His Time. Reviewing The First Edition, The Times Literary Supplement Commented: ‘in Inclusiveness And In Judgment It Has Few Rivals Of Its Kind’. This First Volume Covers The Middle Ages (to 1500) In Two Sections: The Old English Period (to 1100) By Kemp Malone (john Hopkins University), And The Middle English Period (1100-1500) By Albert C. Baugh (university Of Pennsylvania).