This volume of papers, from an international Conference held in Beverley in 1997 on the translation into the medieval European vernaculars of the works of St Birgitta of Sweden, forms volume 7 in the series The Medieval Translator. Previous volumes in the series have been based on papers heard at the Cardiff Conferences on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages (1987- ). While future volumes in the series will continue to provide a record of the Cardiff Conference (the next is planned for Compostella in 2001), the present volume provides a welcome development for the series, and paves the way for scholarly monographs on individual works and writers — including editions of medieval translations — and other publications more narrowly angled at the different questions raised by the study of medieval translation.