Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight

by Arthur Bahr

A unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both a material and literary object.

In this book, Arthur Bahr takes a fresh look at the four poems and twelve illustrations of the so-called "Pearl-Manuscript," the only surviving medieval copy of two of the best-known Middle English poems: Pearl and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226835359
• ISBN13: 9780226835358
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages