The papers in this volume embrace a variety of research topics and approaches, with particular interest in multilingualism, multidialectalism and language contact in medieval England. The book gives a specialized stance on language change in Middle English at different levels: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics.

The present edition offers the diplomatic transcription of MS Wellcome 542, holding a late Middle English hitherto unedited remedybook based on the medical lore of Hippocrates, Socrates and Galen. A glossary, notes and introduction also accompany the edition. The introduction deals with the textual transmission of the text, a codicological/palaeographic description and the scribe’s dialect and idiolect.