Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England

ISBN-13: 9780198790785 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str.

Sebastian Sobecki

Recenzje

When texts have been severed from the primary audiences that could fill in any such blanks, then present-day scholars are left to make the attempt. That is the task Sobecki has set himself, and which he is pursuing with admirable energy and enthusiasm.

O autorze

Sebastian Sobecki is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. His research concentrates on literature from the fourteenth century to the Reformation, especially scribes, archives, and manuscripts; ideas of authorship and literary culture; and law, travel, and politics in literature. He is the author of Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015) and The Sea and Medieval English Literature (D.S. Brewer, 2008). His other books include Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology (OUP, 2019), edited with Anthony Bale, A Critical Companion to John Skelton (D.S. Brewer, 2018), with John Scattergood, and The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature, edited with Candace Barrington. He edits the journal Studies in the Age of Chaucer.