From memory - I haven't got the book to hand - there's something
interesting about medieval attitudes to the Germans in Hans Fuhrmann's
Ueberall ist Mittelalter - in any case an excellent read. I agree
passionately, as we all must, with all that has been said in this
correspondence about the uneducated Englishman's (or the semi-educated
Englishman's) unthinking acceptance of the view that the Germans are
there to be laughed at - or (even worse) vilified.
Frank Shaw
Dept of German
University of Bristol
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