Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
I specialise in late medieval English literature and literary history, especially palaeography, archives, and manuscripts; ideas of authorship and literary culture; law and literature; political writing and intellectual history; and travel and global medieval literature.
External positions
Bloomfield Visiting Fellow, English Department, Harvard University
2022 → 2023
Visiting Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford
2021
H.P. Kraus Fellow in Early Books and Manuscripts, Beinecke Library, Yale University
2019
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
2016
Andrew Mellon Fellow, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
2015
Network
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Research output
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Hares, Rabbits, Pheasants: Piers Plowman and William Longewille, a Norfolk Rebel in 1381
Sobecki, S., Apr-2018, In: The Review of English Studies. 69, 289, p. 216-236 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open AccessFile4 Citations (Scopus)40 Downloads (Pure) -
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Law and Literature
Sobecki, S. (ed.) & Barrington, C. (ed.), Jul-2019, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge Companions to Literature)Research output: Book/Report › Book › Academic › peer-review
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The Handwriting of Fifteenth-Century Privy Seal and Council Clerks
Sobecki, S., Apr-2021, In: The Review of English Studies. 72, 304, p. 253–279 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open AccessFile38 Downloads (Pure) -
Ecce patet tensus: The Trentham Manuscript, In Praise of Peace, and John Gower's Autograph Hand
Sobecki, S., Oct-2015, In: Speculum-A journal of medieval studies. 90, 4, 40 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open AccessFile5 Citations (Scopus)537 Downloads (Pure) -
A Southwark Tale: Gower, the Poll Tax of 1381, and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
Sobecki, S., Jul-2017, In: Speculum-A journal of medieval studies. 92, 3, p. 630-660 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open AccessFile8 Citations (Scopus)1611 Downloads (Pure)
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The Manuscripts of The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye and John Fortescue’s The Governance of England (All Souls College, Oxford, Visiting Fellowship)
01/01/2016 → 30/11/2019
Project: Research
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An Edition of Miles Hogarde’s A Mirroure of Myserie, 1557 (Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Huntington Library)
01/07/2015 → 31/12/2020
Project: Research
Activities
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The 2021 Chaucer Lecture [University of Kent]
Sebastian Sobecki (Keynote speaker)
2021Activity: Talk and presentation › Academic presentation › Academic
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Oxford Medieval English Seminar
Sebastian Sobecki (Invited speaker)
2020Activity: Talk and presentation › Academic presentation › Academic
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Yale University Medieval English Colloquium
Sebastian Sobecki (Invited speaker)
5-Sep-2019Activity: Talk and presentation › Academic presentation › Academic
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Harvard University Medieval English Colloquium
Sebastian Sobecki (Invited speaker)
11-Sep-2019Activity: Talk and presentation › Academic presentation › Academic
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Fordham University English Department / Centre for Medieval Studies
Sebastian Sobecki (Invited speaker)
17-Sep-2019Activity: Talk and presentation › Academic presentation › Academic
Press / Media
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The Guardian: Document casts new light on Chaucer 'rape' case
07/06/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research › Popular
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BBC Radio 4, expert interview on medieval travel writing
01/04/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities › Popular
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The Guardian: Archive find shows medieval mystic Margery Kempe's autobiography 'doesn't lie'
08/05/2015
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research › Popular
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BBC: The 500-year-old poem that captivated Reddit
08/10/2014
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other › Popular
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Gazeta Wyborcza: Przełomowe dla historii literatury angielskiej odkrycie w Gdańsku
03/06/2015
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research › Popular
Prizes
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Visiting Fellowship, Magdalen College, Oxford
Sobecki, Sebastian (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively › Academic
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H.P. Kraus Fellow in Early Books and Manuscripts, Beinecke Library, Yale University
Sobecki, Sebastian (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively › Academic
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Visiting Fellowship, All Souls College, Oxford
Sobecki, Sebastian (Recipient), Jan-2016
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively › Academic
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library
Sobecki, Sebastian (Recipient), Jul-2015
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively › Academic