The Editors: Marcin Krygier; Ph.D. in 1993, D. Litt. in 1997; Fulbright fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1995 to 1996; author or co-author of three books on Old and Middle English; deputy of 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 the University of California, Los Angeles; visiting professor at the American University, Washington, DC; author or co-author of seven 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: Elżbieta Adamczyk: On the (in)stability of the Old English weak declension – Agnieszka Pysz: True or false? Postposition of adjectives in Old English – Artur Bartnik: Functional projections in Old English: DP and NumP – Liliana Sikorska: «zef thow be not grete clerk, loke thow moste on thys werk»: Religious and secular guidance in William Caxton’s Book of curtesye and John Mirk’s Instructions for parish priests – Christine M. Rose: Glossing Griselda in a medieval conduct book: Le ménagier de Paris – Barbara Kowalik: Mary as Anglo-Saxon Dryhtin and Norman patroness: A fusion of cultural and literary influences in On god ureisun of ure lefdi – Rafał Borysławski: Wordhordes cræft: Confusion and the order of the wor(l)d in Old English gnomes – Anna Czarnowus: Oriental despotism in The Sowdone of Babylone.