List of Figures -- List of Maps -- A Note on Proper Names -- Preface (Richard W. Unger, University of British Columbia) -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Foreword Taking Stock-Looking Forward (Richard Butterwick, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London) -- PART I THE MIDDLE AGES -- Contacts -- Early Commercial Contacts between England, Prussia and Poland (Nils Hybel, University of Copenhagen) -- England's Contacts with Poland-Lithuania in the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries (Wendy R. Childs, University of Leeds) -- Polish Ships in English Waters in the Later Middle Ages (Maryanne Kowaleski, Fordham University) -- Comparisons: Religion, Society, and Culture -- Preaching on Martyr-Bishops in the Later Middle Ages: Saint Stanislaus of Kraków and Saint Thomas Becket (Stanislava Kuzmová, Central European University, Budapest) -- The Papacy and the Nations of Scotland and Poland, c. 1250-1334 (Sarah Layfield, University of Durham) -- Holy Frontiersmen? Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-century Monastic Colonisation and Socio-Economic Change in Poland and Scotland (Richard D. Oram, University of Stirling) -- Border Communities between Violence and Opportunities: Scotland and Pomerania Compared (Emilia Jamroziak, University of Leeds) -- Polish and English Peasants in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods: a Comparative View (Piotr Guzowski, Institute of History, University of Białystok) -- England and Poland: Medieval Metropolises Compared (Derek Keene, Institute of Historical Research, University of London) -- PART II (THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD) -- Polity, Diplomacy and War -- The Commonwealth and Monarchia Mixta in Polish and English Political Thought in the Later Sixteenth Century (Tomasz Gromelski, Balliol College, University of Oxford).

Poland and Britain against the Ottoman Turks: Jerzy Ossolinski's Embassy to King James I in 1621 (Paweł Rutkowski, Warsaw University) -- Liberty, Virtue and the Chosen People: British and Polish Republicanism in the Early Eighteenth Century (Benedict Wagner-Rundell, Magdalen College, University of Oxford) -- Religion and Toleration -- Corollaries of Commerce between England and Gdansk (Danzig) in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Romance, Heresy, Employment, and Epidemic (John Fudge, Corpus Christi College, Vancouver) -- Witch-hunting in Poland and England: Similarities and Differences (Brian P. Levack, University of Texas-Austin) -- Polish Religious Persecution as a Topic in British Writing in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century (Beata Cieszynska, University of Lisbon and Kazimierz Wielki University) -- Diasporas -- Kraków Citizenship and the Local Scots, 1509-1655 (Waldemar Kowalski, Akademia Świętokrzyska, Kielce) -- The Nation Epidemical: Scoto-Britannus to Scoto-Polonus (Arthur H. Williamson, California State University, Sacramento) -- Britain and Gdańsk (Danzig) in the Eighteenth Century as a Case Study for Cultural Transfer-the interdependence of the 'bourgeois public' and the social activities of British residents in Gdansk in a period of enlightened 'Anglophilia' (Almut Hillebrand, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald) -- Impressions and Stereotypes -- Scotsmen and the Polish Nobility from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century (Peter Paul Bajer, Monash University) -- The View from the Margins: Ireland and Poland-Lithuania, 1698-1798 (Róisín Healy, National University of Ireland, Galway) -- The Picture of England and Englishmen in Polish Memoirs during the Reign of Stanislaus Augustus (1764-1795) (Dariusz Rolnik, Silesian University, Katowice) -- Ideas and Art.

Polish-English (British) Philosophical Contacts and Comparisons from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century (Jan Wolenski, Jagiellonian University, Kraków) -- Echoes of the East: Glimpses of the 'Orient' in British and Polish-Lithuanian Portraiture of the Eighteenth Century (Aleksandra Koutny-Jones, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge) -- Bibliography -- Index.