"The Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde" bears the name of its founder, the English scholar and natural scientist Johannes Hoops. A second, completely revised edition of the "Reallexikon" has been appearing since 1972. It is designed as a handbook, and follows the tradition of comprehensive encyclopedias. Its objective is to give an allencompassing and critical account of the state of the art in Old Germanic History. Its interdisciplinary approach includes findings from art history, legal history, ethnology and religious studies.

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"Das Reallexikon soll eine Gesamtdarstellung der Kultur der germanischen Volker von den altesten Zeiten bis zum Ende der althochdeutschen, altniederdeutschen und altenglischen Periode, also bis ins 11. Jahrhundert, geben; im Norden wurde die Darstellung bis ins 12. Jahrhundert ausgedehnt, um die alteste literarische Uberlieferung voll ausschopfen zu konnen. Ausgeschlossen wurde ausser der politischen Geschichte auch die Kirchen-, Dogmen- und Literaturgeschichte, weil hierfur zuverlassige Lehrbucher genug zur Verfugung stehn, und weil die Einverleibung dieser Wissensgebiete den Umfang des...