Derek Pearsall

{{Short description|British medievalist (1931–2021)}}

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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.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). 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.{{cite web |title=People |url=https://english.fas.harvard.edu/our-people |accessdate=13 November 2018 |language=en}}{{cite book|editor=Aers, David|chapter=Preface by Derek Brewer|title=Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall|location=Cambridge|publisher=D. S. Brewer|year=2000|pages=vii–ix|isbn=9780859915557|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wgh_IQeuqz4C&pg=PR7}} In 1998, he delivered the British Academy's Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture.{{cite web|title=Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lectures|website=The British Academy|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectures/listings/sir-israel-gollancz-memorial-lectures/}} [https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/2466/101p077-Pearsall.pdf text]