Books by Derek Pearsall

Winner of the 2022 John Hurt Fisher Award from the John Gower SocietyFirst comprehensive catalogue of the manuscripts of one of the most important medieval works, with full descriptions of their features.

Essays considering the relationship between Gower's texts and the physical ways in which they were first manifested.

Essays exploring different aspects of late medieval and early modern manuscript and book culture.

Fresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period.

A vision of the arts and literature of European culture in the High Middle Ages, this book covers the world of Chaucer, Boccaccio, Petarch and the Arthurian romances. It shows the movement from a church-dominated culture to one which was much more self-confident and enquiring.

This work provides a full critical introduction to the complete "Canterbury Tales".