Description: 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 features.Brief description: The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.
Review Quotes: This book, more than forty years in the making and highly anticipated, does not disappoint.
It promised to be an invaluable catalogue that will not merely facilitate, but generate important
new research into not just John Gower's Confessio Amantis itself, but into a wide range of
aspects of the 15th century production of Middle English literary manuscripts.-- "BULLETIN CODICOLOGIQUE"