Welcome to the History of English Podcast, a podcast about the history of the English language.

This is Episode 58, Bibliophiles and Bookworms.

In this episode, we're going to take a closer look at the Westwick's literary revival

of the late 10th century.

We'll also examine some of the more important texts which were created or preserved during

that period.

And we'll also look at the important role played by a handful of Bibliophiles and book

collectors in preserving those manuscripts.

But before we begin, let me remind you that the website for the podcast is historyofenglishpodcast.com.

And you can always reach me directly at Kevin at historyofenglishpodcast.com.

And I'm continuing to work on the e-book version of the podcast.

Just to give you a quick update, I am planning on releasing that material in four parts.

The first part will cover the pre-English period, so the period from the original Indo-Europeans

through the Germanic tribes.

That basically corresponds to episodes 1 through 27 of the podcast.

I hope to have that version ready sometime in April, and that timeframe will also roughly

correspond to the conclusion of the Old English period of the podcast.

So that will also allow me to gather all of the material on Old English and really sit

shortly thereafter.

So that will cover episodes 28 through 60 or 61.

And then we can turn our attention to Middle English.

So that's the plan and the general timeframe.

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