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This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Second Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznan, Poland in November 2003. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the areas of Old and Middle English language and literature: from language contact and Middle English syntax to pragmatics, and from Chaucer to Middle English religious and secular discourse.

For the Loue of Inglis Lede

Contents : D. Gary Miller: The morphosyntactic legacy of Scand-English contact - Rafal Molencki: The use of the pluperfect tense in Early Middle English - Saara Nevanlinna: Observations on assonance of fricative consonants in the rhymes of scribal manuscripts of LME verse - Matylda Wlodarczyk-Golka: Reported speech analysis in a historical pragmatic perspective: In search of a database - Liliana Sikorska: Imagining heaven: Visions of bliss in medieval mystical discourse - Andrzej Wicher: The Breton lay and the tale of magic: A preliminary attempt at arriving at the internal unity and ideology of selected Breton lays - Barbara Kowalik: Addressing God in Middle English lyrics - Rafal Boryslawski: The co(s)mic space in Chaucer's "Knight's Tale".