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About the Author
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.
Reviews
[O]ffers a compendium of much of the research going on in Middle English manuscript and bibliographical studies and will be invaluable to scholars at all levels. * JEGP *
These essays bring new findings to the table and deserve to be widely read by students of medieval books. * ARCHIV *
An excellent volume that everyone working in early book studies will want to read, and from which those who do not normally engage with manuscript and print studies would learn a great deal. * JOURNAL OF THE EDINBURGH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY *
[The essays] are generous, rigorous, richly detailed and replete with fascinating discoveries about medieval books. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *
It is precisely this sort of research that can offer clinching evidence for arguments about premodern books and the texts contained in them. It is vital that there remains a publishing space for this level of evidence. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *
Book Information
ISBN 9781843843757
Author Carol Meale
Format Hardback
Page Count 275
Imprint D.S. Brewer
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g