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: This collection is a great resource for further scholarship on the Auchinleck manuscript and the treasures it contains.-- "THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW"