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The article is devoted to the most interesting aspects of research on Polish Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque literature in the last forty years. The most significant books, articles and research projects are discussed. The author focuses his attention on the following problems: Neo-Latin literature, studies on rhetoric, academic editing of Old Polish literature, research on religious literature and Baroque poetry, new methods of research inspired by thematology, philosophical hermeneutics, existentialism and phenomenology. The last two parts of the article are dedicated to research combining various disciplines (visual poetry, religious polemics, etc.) and to a significant development of Medieval studies from the 1990s. The author believes that studies on Old Polish literature form an essential part of literary studies in Poland and are interesting because of their interdisciplinary and comparative nature. There are still many important issues to be addressed. Neo-Latin studies have been long neglected and excluded from research on the history of Polish literature; there is a major shortage of specialists trained in the academic editing of old texts – both in Polish and Latin; there is a lack of serious academic monographs on major Renaissance and Baroque writers. Despite all these problems, achievements in this field are often spectacular.