Contents : Marcin Cieniuch: Layers of fictionality. Reading Victorian medievalism in A. S. Byatt's Possession - Lindsay Clarke: The alchemy of imagination - Anna Czarnowus: Artificial discourse of national belonging: the case of Anglo-Saxonism - Jacek Fabiszak: The gender of the Vice: from the Medieval she-vice to the Renaissance she-villain in Shakespeare's Macbeth - Keiko Hamaguchi: Rewriting Arthurian legends in Soseki: "Kairoko" and Malory - Lukasz Hudomiet: The portrayal of (d)evil in Iris Murdoch's The Flight from the Enchanter , A Fairly Honourable Defeat and The Time of the Angels - Dagmara Krzyzaniak: Medieval dramatic tradition revisited in Peter Barnes' Red noses - Joanna Maciulewicz: Translations and imitations of medieval texts in Neoclassicism: Chaucer as a "rough diamond" that "must first be polished ere he shines" - Malgorzata Milczarek: The witch in English literature: negotiation of power and gender politics - Hans Sauer: Teaching the English Middle Ages of film - possibilities, problems, perspectives - Agnieszka Setecka: Alfred Tennyson's "Vivien" and "Guinevere": sensation stories in medieval setting - Liliana Sikorska: The alchemy of love: Representing desire in a medievalist (con)text. Lindsay Clarke's The Chymical Wedding - Anna Warmuz: Medieval bestiaries and modern beasts - the making of beast fables in contemporary literature - Andrzej Wicher: Some Boethian and ecclesiological themes in C.S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters - Wladyslaw Witalisz: Blind Hary's The Wallace and Mel Gibson's Braveheart : what do medieval romance and Hollywood film have in common?