Liliana Sikorska, PhD 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, Fulbright Fellow at Cornell University; author and co-author of numerous books on medieval English and Irish literature; head of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University Pozna (Poland).Marcin Krygier, PhD in 1993, D. Litt. in 1997; Fulbright fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, author and co-author of numerous books on Old and Middle English; head of the Department of the History of English at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna (Poland).

• Contents: Laura Wright: On historical dictionaries and language boundaries: Evidence from medieval mixed-language business writing Magdalena Bator: Boil vs. seethe in Middle English Minako Nakayasu: Chaucers historical present: A discourse-pragmatic perspective Marietta Rusinek: Medieval French borrowings in the English cakes vocabulary: A historical semantic analysis Ad Putter: The predictable and the unpredictable: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the metres of Middle English romance Bartomiej Baszkiewicz: On some representations of Mary Magdalene in Middle English literature Barbara Kowalik: We make our wealth our god and turn our souls to paupers: Images of poverty and prosperity in Robert Henrysons Fables Hans Sauer/Veronika Traidl: Beowulf and Beowulf films, or: Fathers, sons, and monsters Andrzej Wicher: The fairy needlewoman Emar - A study of the Middle English romance Emar in the context of the tale of magic.