¹ e.g. p. 121, n. 28: the Old English ‘literary flowering was prevented by the Norman invasion’ (for ‘zerstort’); p. 208 ‘social and vestimentary detail’ (for ‘Modisches’); pp. 264, 270 the translator's confusion of the twelfth with the eleventh century makes the argument incomprehensible at crucial moments; p. 273 ‘pompous sentence structure’ (for ‘feierlich’); the bibliographical references on p. 52, n. 24 have become garbled.