This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to Middle High German, aimed at graduate and undergraduate students and designed for both taught courses and self-study. It covers the language and literature of German in the period 1050-1350, including an entry-level grammar and a wide selection of texts with extensive explanatory material.

Howard Jones is a Fellow and Lecturer in Linguistics at Keble College, Oxford, where he has taught general linguistics, historical linguistics, and the history of German for 15 years. Before that he taught at King's College London. His research focuses on the semantics of verbs in the Germanic languages (notably the categories of aspect, mood, and voice) and on the language of Martin Luther.
Martin H. Jones is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of German at King's College London, where he taught medieval German language and literature from 1968 until his retirement as Senior Lecturer in 2009. He was Head of the Department of German from 2000-2004. His publications range widely over the literature of the Middle High German period, with particular emphasis on the works of Hartmann von Aue and Wolfram von Eschenbach and on the themes of chivalry and warfare.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Grammar


• 3: Lexis


• 4: Selection of annotated texts


• Glossary of linguistic terms


• Glossary of vocabulary


• References


• Index