Derek Pearsall is Gurney Professor of English, Emeritus, at Harvard University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of York. His previous publications include a study of Landscapes and Seasons of the Medieval World (with Elizabeth Salter, 1973), a history of Old English and Middle English Poetry (1977), editions of Piers Plowman (1978) and Chaucer”s Nun”s Priest”s Tale (1983), a critical study of The Canterbury Tales (1985), The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer (Blackwell Publishing, 1992), and Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, 1999).
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Derek Pearsall: Arthurian Romance
This witty and accessible book traces the history of Arthurian romance from medieval to modern times, explaining its enduring appeal. * * Traces the history of Arthurian romance from medieval to mode …
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Derek (Author passed away as advised by Harrowells solicitors sf case 02089806) Pearsall: Old English and Middle English Poetry
Originally published in 1977, Old English and Middle English Poetry provides a historical approach to English poetry. The book examines the conditions out of which poetry grew and argues that the fun …
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Derek (Author passed away as advised by Harrowells solicitors sf case 02089806) Pearsall: Old English and Middle English Poetry
Originally published in 1977, Old English and Middle English Poetry provides a historical approach to English poetry. The book examines the conditions out of which poetry grew and argues that the fun …
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€43.65
Derek (Author passed away as advised by Harrowells solicitors sf case 02089806) Pearsall: John Lydgate
Originally published in 1970, John Lydgate sets out to restore a sense of perspective to the work of Lydgate, not by attributing a spurious modernity as a precursor of the Renaissance, but by accepti …
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Derek (Author passed away as advised by Harrowells solicitors sf case 02089806) Pearsall: John Lydgate
Originally published in 1970, John Lydgate sets out to restore a sense of perspective to the work of Lydgate, not by attributing a spurious modernity as a precursor of the Renaissance, but by accepti …
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A S G Edwards & Derek Pearsall: Middle English Prose
Originally published in 1981, Middle English Prose is an edited collection providing an index of research and scholarship on Middle English prose. The book is split into specific thematic areas of sc …
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A S G Edwards & Derek Pearsall: Middle English Prose
Originally published in 1981, Middle English Prose is an edited collection providing an index of research and scholarship on Middle English prose. The book is split into specific thematic areas of sc …
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€40.85
Derek Pearsall: Canterbury Tales
This classic and eminently readable work provides a full critical introduction to the complete Canterbury Tales. Essential reading for students of Chaucer. …
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Derek Pearsall: Canterbury Tales
This classic and eminently readable work provides a full critical introduction to the complete Canterbury Tales. Essential reading for students of Chaucer. …
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€48.77
Derek Pearsall: Gothic Europe 1200-1450
This uniquely ambitious history offers an account of all aspects of cultural activity and production throughout the world of Latin Christendom 1200-1450. Beginning with a detailed description of the …
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Derek Pearsall: Gothic Europe 1200-1450
This uniquely ambitious history offers an account of all aspects of cultural activity and production throughout the world of Latin Christendom 1200-1450. Beginning with a detailed description of the …
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€92.65
Martha W. Driver & R F Yeager: John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
Essays considering the relationship between Gower’s texts and the physical ways in which they were first manifested. The media in which Gower’s works were first transmitted, whether in print of manus …
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Derek Pearsall: Floure and the Leafe, The Assembly of Ladies, The Isle of Ladies
An asset to any study of gender in medieval England, this volume contains three poems that complement each other in their treatments of relations between the sexes. The Floure and the Leafe explores …
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Charlotte Brewer & Barry A Windeatt: Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Medieval English Literature
Essays on the many key aspects of medieval literature, reflecting the significant impact of Professor Derek Brewer. Derek Brewer (1923-2008) was one of the most influential medievalists of the twenti …
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Cristina Maria Cervone & D. Vance Smith: Readings in Medieval Textuality
Essays on a variety of topics in late medieval literature, linked by an engagement with form. The insight that ’the implications of textuality as such’ can and must underlie our interpretations of li …
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Tamara Atkin & Jaclyn Rajsic: Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain
Essays on book history, manuscripts and reading during a period of considerable change. The production, transmission, and reception of texts from England and beyond during the late medieval and early …
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Mary-Jo Arn: Charles d’Orléans in England, 1415-1440
Studies of evidence of Charles d’Orleans as scholar, politician and poet during his 25 years of captivity in England Charles, duc d’Orléans, prince and poet, was a captive in England for twenty-five …
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Susanna Fein: The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives
Fresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period. Created in London c. 1340, the Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh, National Librar …
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Susannah Mary Chewning: Studies in the Age of Gower
The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to advance scholarship and critical debate on this poet, they fo …
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Linne R Mooney & Derek Pearsall: A Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis
Winner of the 2022 John Hurt Fisher Award from the John Gower Society First comprehensive catalogue of the manuscripts of one of the most important medieval works, with full descriptions of their fea …
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Carol Meale & Derek Pearsall: Makers and Users of Medieval Books
Essays exploring different aspects of late medieval and early modern manuscript and book culture. Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It includes n …
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Susannah Mary Chewning: Studies in the Age of Gower
New perspectives on one of the most important medieval poets. The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to …
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Margaret Connolly & Holly James-Maddocks: Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England
Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety. Linne R. Mooney, Emeritus Professor of Palaeography at the University of York, has significantly advanc …
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Derek Pearsall: New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies
Influential scholars from Britain and North America discuss future directions in rapidly expanding field of manuscript study. The study of manuscripts is one of the most active areas of current resea …
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James Bothwell & P J P Goldberg: The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-Century England
Attitudes towards `labour’, in the wake of the Black Death, shown to range from early protest literature to repressive authoritarianism. At the very moment that the image of the honest labourer seeme …
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Catherine Innes Parker & Cate Gunn: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care
New essays on the burgeoning of pastoral and devotional literature in medieval England. Pastoral and devotional literature flourished throughout the middle ages, and its growth and transmutations for …
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Margaret Connolly & Holly James-Maddocks: Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England
Linne R. Mooney, Emeritus Professor of Palaeography at the University of York, has significantly advanced the study of later medieval English book production, particularly our knowledge of individual …
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Ardis Butterfield: Chaucer and the City
Essays exploring Chaucer’s identity as a London poet and the urban context for his writings. Literature of the city and the city in literature are topics of major contemporary interest. This volume e …
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Rhiannon Purdie & Michael Cichon: Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts
The popular genre of medieval romance explored in its physical, geographical, and literary contexts. The essays in this volume take a representative selection of English and Scottish romances from th …
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Christopher Cannon & Maura Nolan: Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature
Fresh and provocative approaches to the literature of the middle ages, offering close readings of texts from Chaucer to Henryson, and beast fable to devotional works. Jill Mann’s writing, teaching, a …
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Michael Johnston & Kathryn Kerby-Fulton: Poets and Scribes in Late Medieval England
Susanna Fein’s long and distinguished scholarly career has helped to redefine how we understand the role of scribes and manuscripts from late medieval England. She has carried out groundbreaking rese …
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Michael Johnston & Kathryn Kerby-Fulton: Poets and Scribes in Late Medieval England
Susanna Fein’s long and distinguished scholarly career has helped to redefine how we understand the role of scribes and manuscripts from late medieval England. She has carried out groundbreaking rese …
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Judith A. Jefferson & Ad Putter: The Transmission of Medieval Romance
The genre of medieval romance examined through the lens of their physical and their metrical forms. Romances were immensely popular with medieval readers, as evidenced by their ubiquity in manuscript …
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