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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 Poznań (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, Poznań (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: Chaucer’s 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 – Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz: 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 Henryson’s Fables – Hans Sauer/Veronika Traidl: Beowulf and Beowulf films, or: Fathers, sons, and monsters – Andrzej Wicher: The fairy needlewoman Emaré - A study of the Middle English romance Emaré in the context of the tale of magic.