The Editors: Marcin Krygier; Ph.D. in 1993, D.Litt. in 1997; Fulbright fellow at UCLA from 1995 to 1996; author and co-author of three books on Old and Middle English; head of Department of the History of English at the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland).Liliana Sikorska; Ph.D. in 1994, D.Litt. in 1996; visiting scholar at the University of Florida, Brown University and UCLA; visiting professor at the American University, Washington, DC; author and co-author of books on medieval English and Irish literature; head of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics at the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland).

• Contents: Merja Stenroos: A Middle English mess of fricative spellings: Reflections on thorn, yogh and their rivals – Rafał Molencki: On the rise of the temporal conjunction before in Medieval English – Richard Ingham: A structural constraint on multiple negation in Late Middle and Early Modern English – Stephen K. Wright: What’s so «English» about medieval English drama? An East Anglican Miracle Play and its continental counterpart – Joyce Coleman: The making and breaking of language in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur – Harold Kaylor: Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy – Rafał Borysławski: Sirith-na-Gig? Dame Sirith and the fabliau hags as textual analogues to the Sheela-figures.