Sebastian Sobecki

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According to Wikipedia, Sebastian Sobecki is a medievalist specialising in English literature, history, and manuscript studies. Biography Sobecki is Professor of Later Medieval English Literature at the University of Toronto. Prior to that, he was Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen, the oldest chair for English literature in the Netherlands. At Groningen he also held by courtesy the Professorship of Old Germanic, established in 1881. Having received his education at the University of Cambridge, Sobecki became an Assistant Professor at McGill University before being appointed at Groningen. He works on late medieval English literature, particularly on literary history; handwriting, archives, and manuscripts; authorship and literary culture; law and literature; political writing and intellectual history; and travel and global medieval literature. Sobecki was awarded the John Hurt Fisher Prize by the John Gower Society and has held fellowships from Harvard University, Yale University, All Souls College Oxford, Magdalen College Oxford, and the Huntington Library.

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The Sea and Medieval English Literature (2007) (24)
“The writyng of this tretys”: Margery Kempe’s Son and the Authorship of Her Book (2015) (15)
Mandeville's thought of the limit: The discourse of similarity and difference in The 'Travels of Sir John Mandeville' (2002) (12)
The Sea and Englishness in the Middle Ages: Maritime Narratives, Identity, and Culture (2011) (10)
A Southwark Tale: Gower, the 1381 Poll Tax, and Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (2017) (7)
The Authorship of A Relation of the State of Polonia, 1598 (2003) (6)
Littoral Encounters: The Shore as Cultural Interface in King Horn (2006) (4)
From the Désert Liquide to the Sea of Romance: Benedeit's Le Voyage de Saint Brendan and the Irish Immrama (2003) (4)
John Peyton's A Relation of the State of Polonia and the Accession of King James I, 1598-1603 (2014) (4)
Hares, Rabbits, Pheasants: Piers Plowman and William Longewille, a Norfolk Rebel in 1381 (2017) (4)
The 2000 Saracens of 'King Horn' (2005) (3)
New World Discovery (2015) (3)
Lydgate’s Kneeling Retraction: The Testament as a Literary Palinode (2015) (3)
Bureaucratic Verse: William Lyndwood, the Privy Seal and the Form of The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye (2010) (3)
Ecce patet tensus: The Trentham Manuscript, In Praise of Peace, and John Gower's Autograph Hand (2015) (3)
‘A man of curious enquiry’: John Peyton's Grand Tour to central Europe and Robert Cecil's intelligence network, 1596–1601 (2015) (3)
Educating Richard: Incest, Marriage, and (Political) Consent in Gower's “Tale of Apollonius” (2007) (3)
Gabriela Schmidt, Thomas More und die Sprachenfrage: Humanistische Sprachtheorie und die translatio studii im England der frühen Tudorzeit (2011) (2)
Wards and Widows: Troilus and Criseyde and New Documents on Chaucer's Life (2019) (2)
Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England (2020) (2)
'and to the Herte She Hireselven Smot': The Loveris Maladye and the Legitimate Suicides of Chaucer's and Gower's Exemplary Lovers (2004) (2)
Last Words (2019) (2)
Scattergood, John Skelton: The Career of an Early Tudor Poet (2015) (2)
A source for the magical ship in the 'Partonopeu de Blois' and Marie de France's 'Guigemar' (2001) (2)
Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549 (2015) (2)
Our seas of islands (2016) (2)
A New Manuscript of John Peyton’s A Relation of the State of Polonia (1598–1619) (2015) (1)
The interpretation of The Seafarer—a re-examination of the pilgrimage theory (2007) (1)
A New Companion to Chaucer (2017) (1)
Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages, by Arvind Thomas (2020) (1)
09.11.24, Ward, World of the Medieval Shipmaster (2009) (1)
Muddy Waters: Unclaene Fish in Aelfric's 'Colloquy' (2006) (1)
and to the Herte She Hireselven Smot (2004) (1)
Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology (2019) (1)
Nature's Farthest Verge or Landscapes beyond Allegory and Rhetorical Convention? the Case of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Petrarch's Ascent of Mount Ventoux (2006) (1)
Exemplary Intentions Two English Dominican Hagiographers in the Thirteenth Century and the Preaching throughexempla (2008) (1)
'King Horn' and Horace's 'Ode to Virgil's Ship (Odes 1.3)' (2007) (1)
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Law and Literature (2019) (1)
‘And gret wel Chaucer whan ye mete’: Chaucer’s Earliest Readers, Addressees, and Audiences (2017) (1)
[Review of the book 'Of Laws of Ships and Shipmen': Medieval Maritime Law and Its Practice in Urban Northern Europe , by Edda Frankot] (2014) (0)
New Life Records for John Skelton as Rector of Diss, Norfolk (1514 and 1516) (2020) (0)
The Sea and Medieval English Literature: List of Abbreviations (2007) (0)
A Thousand Furlongs of Sea (2012) (0)
Occian (the ocean) (2020) (0)
Law and Politics (2018) (0)
[Review of the book Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth, by Alessandro Scafi] (2007) (0)
Marigny, Philippe de (2006) (0)
Heinrich der Löwe (2006) (0)
Review of Matthew Irvin, The Poetic Voices of John Gower: Politics and Personae in the Confessio Amantis (2016) (0)
Hakluyt as Editor of Medieval Texts (2018) (0)
The Material Politics of England's Fifteenth-Century Literature (2018) (0)
Occasions for Writing: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Politics, and Society (2012) (0)
[Review of the book the World of the Medieval Seamaster : Law, Business and the Sea, c.1350-c.1450, by Robin Ward] (2009) (0)
The Earliest Record of John Lydgate at Hatfield Regis (2019) (0)
An Edition of Miles Hogarde’s A Mirroure of Myserie (1557) (2020) (0)
Petrus von Dacien (2006) (0)
Youth, at a Cost (2013) (0)
The Sea and Medieval English Literature: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2007) (0)
The Poet of Everything : Marion Turner, Chaucer: A European Life (Princeton UP 2019) (2019) (0)
[Review of the book Literature and Complaint in England, 1272-1553, by Wendy Scase] (2008) (0)
Review: Paul Strohm, Chaucer's Tale : 1386 and the Road to Canterbury (2015) (0)
Certain obscure and dark terms: John Rastell and the first english law lexicon, 1524 (2011) (0)
Dom John Broadhook alias John Lydgate, 1424 (2021) (0)
Chaucer’s Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury by Paul Strohm (review) (2016) (0)
[Review of the book Image, Text, and Religious Reform in Fifteenth-Century England , by Shannon Gayk] (2013) (0)
Review of the book Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative , by Suzanne Yeager (2012) (0)
Authorized Realities: The Gesta Romanorum and Thomas Hoccleve’s Poetics of Autobiography (2023) (0)
Richard Hakluyt’s ‘Principal Navigations. Vol. 2 (2020) (0)
[Review of the book "Pearl" and contemplative writing, by Anna Sylen Lagerholm,] (2007) (0)
Our Sea of Islands, a special issue of the journal "postmedieval" (2016) (0)
Lancastrian Literature (2019) (0)
The Signet Self (2019) (0)
John Scattergood,John Skelton: The Career of an Early Tudor Poet. Dublin: Four Courts, 2014. Pp. 432; black-and-white figures. €55. ISBN: 978-1-84682-337-4. (2015) (0)
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 41 (2019) (0)
A Letter for Thomas Hoccleve? (2023) (0)
Merja-Riitta Stenroos, Martti Mäkinen, and Inge Særheim, eds., Language Development and Contact around the North Sea. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 321.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2012. Pp. xvi, 235; black-and-white figures. $158. ISBN: 9789027248398. (2013) (0)
David Chan Smith. Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws: Religion, Politics and Jurisprudence, 1578-1616. Cambridge Studies in Legal History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014 (2017) (0)
Wendy Scase, Literature and Complaint in England, 1272–1553 (2008) (0)
Rolle De Hampole, Richard (2007) (0)
[Review of the book Love and ethics in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis' by Peter Nicholson] (2006) (0)
Sir John Peyton, the Younger (1576-1635) (2015) (0)
William of Wykeham (2020) (0)
Dynamic Translations in the European Renaissance / La traduzione del moderno nel Cinquecento europeo. Atti del Convegno internazionale, Università di Groningen, 21-22 Ottobre 2010 (2011) (0)
‘And gret wel Chaucer whan ye mete’ (2020) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
W tajnej służbie Jej Królewskiej Mości (2015) (0)
Our Sea of Islands (2016) (0)
Saewulf's Lost Arabic Map (2017) (0)
Suzanne M. Yeager, Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative (2012) (0)
The Handwriting of Fifteenth-Century Privy Seal and Council Clerks (2020) (0)
Epilogue: The Tempest's Many Beginnings (2012) (0)
The Handwriting of Fifteenth-Century Signet Clerks and the King’s French Secretaries (2021) (0)
Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (2016) (0)
Parting Shots (2019) (0)
[Review of the book A Companion to the Middle English Lyric, by Thomas Duncan] (2006) (0)
[Review of the book Writing the Map of Anglo-saxon England : Essays in Cultural Geography, by Nicholas Howe] (2008) (0)
Pilgrimage and Travel (2019) (0)
Last Words: Author, Manuscript, and the Public Self in Late Medieval Literature (2019) (0)
STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER (2010) (0)
STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER with clarity and brilliance, for the enclosed garden as an important trope during the first one thousand years of writing in and about England (2013) (0)
A Companion to John Skelton (2017) (0)
'That Dizzy Height of Wisdom': Augustinian Vision and Kynde's Mountain in Piers Plowman B XI (2008) (0)
The Series (2019) (0)
How the spy John Peyton put Poland on the map (to keep King James on the throne) (2015) (0)
[Review of the book Creation, migration, and conquest, by Fabienne Michelet] : Imaginary geography and sense of space in old English literature. (2006) (0)
Historians on John Gower. Edited by Stephen H. Rigby, with Siân Echard. Boydell & Brewer. 2019. xxiv + 556pp. £75.00. (2020) (0)
Lydgate’s Kneeling Retraction (2019) (0)
Stones Left Unturned (Psst! More New Chaucer Life Records) (2019) (0)
The Scots and Medieval Arthurian Legend (Arthurian Studies No. 61) (2007) (0)
Realms in Abeyance (2012) (0)
Nicolette Zeeman, “Piers Plowman” and the Medieval Discourse of Desire (2007) (0)
A Critical Companion to John Skelton (2018) (0)
Sea and Seafaring (2020) (0)
Afterword (2019) (0)
The Island Garden: England’s Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell by Lynn Staley (review) (2013) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
The Oxford Handbook to Richard Hakluyt (2017) (0)
Image, Text, and Religious Reform in Fifteenth-Century England (2013) (0)
Review of the book Occasions for Writing: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Politics, and Society, by John Scattergood (2012) (0)
APPENDIX 1. Chronology of the Known Chaucer–Chaumpaigne Records (2022) (0)
Review of the book Norman Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, by Charles Stanton (2013) (0)
APPENDIX 3. Calendar of New Chaucer Life-Records (2022) (0)
Geoffrey Chaucer, Cecily Chaumpaigne, and the Statute of Laborers: New Records and Old Evidence Reconsidered (2022) (0)
From Ping-pong Cupboards to Gdańsk Archives: Finding Margery’s Voice (2015) (0)
[Review of the book 'Piers Plowman' and the medieval discourse of desire, by Nicolette Zeeman] (2007) (0)
Peter of Dacia (2006) (0)
Afterword: Pragmatic Selves (2019) (0)
A NEW LIFE RECORD FOR JOHN GOWER, 1396 (2020) (0)
Orietta Da Rold, Paper in Medieval England: From Pulp to Fictions. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 112.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xix, 270; black-and-white figures. $99.99. ISBN: 978-1-1088-4057-6. (2022) (0)
Review of William D. Paden, Two Medieval Occitan Toll Registers from Tarascon (2017) (0)
[Review of the book The social life of Language Development and Contact around the North Sea, by Merja-Riitta Stenroos, Martti Mäkinen, and Inge Særheim, eds., ] (2013) (0)
About the Cover (2000) (0)
Almost Beyond the World (2012) (0)
Edgar's Archipelago: Altitonantis and the Forging of Charters in Twelfth-Century Worcester (2011) (0)
Deserts and Forests in the Ocean (2012) (0)
Poaching with Piers Plowman (2018) (0)
The Indexical Self (2019) (0)
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2012) (0)
International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages (2006) (0)
Our seas of islands (2016) (0)
Trade and Exchange (2019) (0)
Acknowledgements (2018) (0)
About the Cover (2007) (0)
[Review of the book The Scots and Medieval Arthurian legend , by Rhiannon Purdie and Nicola Royan] (2007) (0)

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University of Groningen