Daniel Hobbins

Daniel Hobbins researches and teaches the history of medieval Europe from 500-1500. His specific interests include the cultural and intellectual history of northwestern Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with special emphasis on universities, written culture, the Hundred Years' War, Jean Gerson, and Joan of Arc. His article “The Schoolman as Public Intellectual: Jean Gerson and the Late Medieval Tract,” which appeared in The American Historical Review 108 (2003): 1308-37, received the Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize from the Medieval Academy. The Trial of Joan of Arc, an introduction to and translation of the original trial documents, appeared with Harvard University Press in 2005. His first book, Authorship and Publicity before Print: Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning, argues for Gerson as a paradigmatic figure in the cultural and intellectual shifts of the late Middle Ages. The book appeared in early 2009 with the University of Pennsylvania Press.