Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Catholic Educational Review, Vol. 16: July-December, 1918
We must not forget that scholars have, as technical aids to study, divided our language and literature into three great epochs: Old English, extending from the earliest times to the year 1100; Middle English, 1100 to 1500; and Modern, 1500 to the present. These periods are still so long, that each may again be divided; this is true especially of Middle English, when our speech was undergoing very considerable changes. Accordingly, Sir Fred erick Madden, whose authority is generally accepted, makes a subdivision of the latter and calls the period from 1100 to 1230 semi-saxon. It is to this class that the piece of literature we are now going to study belongs.
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