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Some Hints:

• Baugh, Albert C. and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language. 4th ed. London 1993.
  (traditional standard history of the English language, very readable)
• Blake, Norman (Ed.). The Cambridge History of the English Language. Vol.II: 1066-1476. Cambridge 1992. (very detailed information by specialists)
• Burrow, J. A. and Thorlac Turville-Petre. A Book of Middle English. 2nd ed., Oxford 1996.
  (good and short survey of the language on the first seventy pages)
• Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge 1987:30-55.
  (excellent overview, richly illustrated)
• Lexikon des Mittelalters. München/Zürich 1980ff. [Einträge s.v. 'Englische Sprache' und 'Mittelenglische Sprache'].
• Markus, Manfred. Mittelenglisches Studienbuch. Tbingen 1990.
  (typically German production)
• McCrum, Robert et al. The Story of English. Lonsdon 1986.
  (book publication to the BBC series with the same title)
• Mossé, Fernand. A Handbook of Middle English, transl. by James A. Walker. Baltimore 1966.
  (standard introduction to Middle English in the 1950s and 60s; grammar and anthology)