James Ogier, The Songs of Michel Beheim: A Selection. Studies in Old Germanic Languages and Literatures, 7. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, et al.: Peter Lang, 2022, xi, 326 pp.

Fifteenth-century literature continues to be fairly little known, although recent years have witnessed a considerable effort to populate the intellectual map with new editions, translations, and studies. Michel Beheim is one of those German poets whose work is hardly known even among Germanists, so James Ogier’s effort to make available a selection of his poems in English translation can only be welcomed. Colin Imber had already published an English translation of Beheim’s