Sebastian Sobecki (born 1973) is a medievalist specialising in English literature, history, and manuscript studies.
[4] Together with Michelle Karnes (University of Notre Dame), Sobecki is the editor of the periodical Studies in the Age of Chaucer.
[5] Sobecki is also editing Medieval Travel Writing: A Global History (Cambridge University Press).
[6] He has made a number of important archival discoveries, such as identifying John Gower's autograph hand,[7] finding a letter written for Margery Kempe's son,[8] locating rebels linked to Piers Plowman,[9] revealing the author (John Peyton) of the earliest English description of Poland,[10][11] and demonstrating connections between tax records and the General Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
[12] Together with Euan Roger of the UK's National Archives, he published two new life records that show that Chaucer and Cecily Chaumpaigne were not on opposing sides of the law in the spring of 1380 but co-defendants in a labour dispute.