Description: Fresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period.
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: [A] thought-provoking and rich collection . . . As these essays amply demonstrate, the Auchinleck manuscript should remain well and trulyat the center of any study of late medieval English literary culture.--Raluca Radulescu "Journal of British Studies"