Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Sebastian Sobecki specialises in English literature and literary history from Chaucer to the Reformation, especially 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
H.P. Kraus Fellow in Early Books and Manuscripts, Yale Univ, Yale University
2019Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
2016Andrew Mellon Fellow, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
2015Network
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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
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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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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
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The Handwriting of Fifteenth-Century Privy Seal and Council Clerks
Sobecki, S., 2021, In : The Review of English Studies. 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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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 AccessFile
Activities
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The 2021 Chaucer Lecture [University of Kent]
Sebastian Sobecki (Keynote speaker)
2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Academic
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Oxford Medieval English Seminar
Sebastian Sobecki (Invited speaker)
2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Academic
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Yale University Medieval English Colloquium
Sebastian Sobecki (Invited speaker)
5-Sep-2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Academic
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Harvard University Medieval English Colloquium
Sebastian Sobecki (Invited speaker)
11-Sep-2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Academic
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Fordham University English Department / Centre for Medieval Studies
Sebastian Sobecki (Invited speaker)
17-Sep-2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Academic
Prizes
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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
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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
Projects
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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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Penn-Groningen Summer School: Law and Literature, c. 1150-1550
Sobecki, S. & Steiner, E.
01/09/2019 → 10/07/2021
Project: Education
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An Edition of Miles Hogarde’s A Mirroure of Myserie, 1557. Mellon Fellowship, Huntington Library
01/07/2015 → 31/12/2020
Project: Research
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NWO Visitor’s Research Grant, Our Sea of Islands: New Approaches to British Insularity in the Middle Ages
Sobecki, S. & Goldie, M.
01/02/2016 → 07/09/2017
Project: Research