This unique work is the first A-Z Encyclopedia to provide in depth coverage of the history and culture of the German and Dutch-speaking world from c.500 to 1500 CE. It offers the most recent scholarship available, while also providing details on the daily life of medieval Germans. This illustrated resource features some 700 signed entries that amount to a virtual microcosm of medieval Dutch and German society. Students at a wide range of levels, specialists and general readers, will find this an essential source of information.