The volume is a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on Foreign
Influences on Medieval English held in Warsaw on 12-13 December 2009 and organized by the
School of English at the Warsaw Division of the Academy of Management in Lódz (Wyzsza Szkola
Przedsiebiorczosci i Zarzadzania). The papers cover a wide range of topics concerning the
impact of Latin Scandinavian French and Celtic on Old and Middle English from orthography
morphology and syntax to lexical semantics and onomastics.