Derek Pearsall

Derek Albert Pearsall (1931–2021) was an English medievalist and Chaucerian who wrote and published widely on Chaucer, Langland, Gower, manuscript studies, and medieval history and culture. He was the co-director for the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York and was the Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University. In 1998, he delivered the British Academy's Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture. Provided by Wikipedia