Derek Pearsall
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use British English 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.[1] 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.[2][3] In 1998, he delivered the British Academy's Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture.[4]
Early and personal life
Pearsall was born in Birmingham to parents Elsie (née Rawlins) and Joseph, a shop fitter toolmaker, and attended King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys. The first in his family to go to university,[5] Pearsall earned a B.A. in 1951 and an M.A. in 1952 from the University of Birmingham (UK).[3]
In 1952 in King's Lynn, Pearsall married Rosemary Elvidge (d. 2004), whom he had met as a student. They had four children.[5] The couple considered York, where they returned to upon retirement and had a permanent house in Clifton, to be their home.[6]
References
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- ↑ Gustafson, Kevin. “New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall.” Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History 18 (2015).
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External links
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- Complete Bibliography. A complete up-to-date bibliography of Derek Pearsall's published work.
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- 1931 births
- 2021 deaths
- Academics from Birmingham, West Midlands
- Academics of King's College London
- Academics of the University of York
- Alumni of the University of Birmingham
- British medievalists
- English historians
- Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
- Harvard University faculty
- People educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys