prof. dr. S.I. (Sebastian) Sobecki
Hoogleraar Engelse letterkunde en cultuurkunde van de Middeleeuwen
Research
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Research interests
My research concentrates on medieval English and early Tudor literature, especially Chaucer and Gower. I work with archives and manuscripts, and am interested in law, politics, travel, and Anglo-European contact. I have received research grants and fellowships from All Souls College, Oxford, Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Huntington Library (USA), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Québec's FQRSC, the German Research Foundation (DFG), and SAUTE in Switzerland. In 2016, I was awarded the John Hurt Fisher Prize by the John Gower Society.
I am completing the first two volumes of a 14-volume edition of Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations for Oxford University Press (general editors: Dan Carey and Claire Jowitt). These two volumes will include 70 of the medieval texts printed by Hakluyt. With Anthony Bale I have recently co-edited Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology (for Oxford University Press, 2019) and, with John Scattergood, A Critical Companion to John Skelton (D.S. Brewer, 2018). Furthermore, I am editing with Candace Barrington The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2019). I am completing my third monograph, Last Words: Author, Manuscript, and the Public Self in Late Medieval Literature (Oxford University Press, 2019). I am the editor of The Travels of Sir John Peyton the Younger (1579–1635), for the Hakluyt Society, in two volumes, and I am also editing Medieval Travel Writing: A Global History for Cambridge University Press.
Together with Michelle Karnes I edit Studies in the Age of Chaucer, the journal of The New Chaucer Society.
Publications
Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology
Sobecki, S. & Bale, A. 2019 Oxford: Oxford University Press. 528 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
A Companion to John Skelton
Sobecki, S. (ed.) & Scattergood, J. (ed.) Nov-2018 Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer. 245 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book editing
The Earliest Record of John Lydgate at Hatfield Regis
Sobecki, S. 2019 (Accepted/In press) In : Chaucer review.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Wards and Widows: Troilus and Criseyde and New Documents on Chaucer's Life
Sobecki, S. 2018 (Accepted/In press) In : ELH.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Hares, Rabbits, Pheasants: Piers Plowman and William Longewille, a Norfolk Rebel in 1381
Sobecki, S. 1-Apr-2018 In : The Review of English Studies. 69, 289, p. 216-236 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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
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
“The writyng of this tretys”: Margery Kempe’s Son and the Authorship of Her Book
Sobecki, S. Nov-2015 In : Studies in the Age of Chaucer. 37Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549
Sobecki, S. Mar-2015 Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 264 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Lydgate’s Kneeling Retraction: The Testament as a Literary Palinode
Sobecki, S. Jan-2015 In : Chaucer review. 49, 3, p. 265-293 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
John Peyton's A Relation of the State of Polonia and the Accession of King James I, 1598-1603
Sobecki, S. I. 2014 In : The English Historical Review. 129, 540, p. 1079-1097 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Bureaucratic Verse: William Lyndwood, the Privy Seal and the Form of The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye
Sobecki, S. I. 2010 In : New Medieval Literatures. 12, p. 251-288 38 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
The Sea and Medieval English Literature
Sobecki, S. I. 2008 Cambridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer. 205 p. (Studies in medieval romance; vol. 5)Research output: Book/Report › Book
Press / Media
Gazeta Wyborcza: Przełomowe dla historii literatury angielskiej odkrycie w Gdańsku
03/06/2015
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Dziennik Bałtycki: Angielska mistyczka w Gdańsku
18/05/2015
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Activities
London Chaucer Conference
Sobecki, S. (Keynote speaker)2017Activity: Professional › Talk or presentation
Pirate Fiction in the Middle Ages, c. 500 - c.1500 AD
Sobecki, S. (Keynote speaker)2017Activity: Professional › Talk or presentation
Travel and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Period
Sobecki, S. (Keynote speaker)2015Activity: Professional › Talk or presentation
The Hakluyt Society (External organisation)
Sobecki, S. (Member)2015 → …Activity: Scientific › Membership of network
Index of Middle English Prose (External organisation)
Sobecki, S. (Member)2016 → …Activity: Scientific › Membership of committee
Prizes
FQRSC Grant - Établissement de nouveau professeurs-chercheurs 2008-2011
Sebastian Sobecki (Recipient), 2008
Prize
Visiting Fellowship, All Souls College, Oxford
Sebastian Sobecki (Recipient), Jan-2016
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library
Sebastian Sobecki (Recipient), Jul-2015
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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