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MIT Associate Professor Arthur Bahr is currently completing a book on the Pearl-Manuscript a rare 14th-century parchment document that includes the "Pearl" poem, and three other works, including the chivalric romance, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." All four works are critical to our understanding of medieval literature.