Daniel Hobbins
Associate Professor
- dhobbins@nd.edu
- Phone
- (574) 631-2761
- Office
- 471 Decio
- Time Period(s)
- Medieval
- Theme(s)
- Intellectual, Religious
- Geography(s)
- Europe
Daniel Hobbins is a historian of high and late medieval Europe, with a particular interest in the cultural, religious, and intellectual history of the period from 1200 to 1500. Under this broad heading, his research has focused on authorship, manuscript culture, textual transmission, the Carthusian order, and fifteenth-century France.
His book Authorship and Publicity before Print (2009) received the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society. He is currently completing a book on the history and meaning of the authorial colophon.
Hobbins is the creator of the Jean Gerson Manuscript Database: https://gerson.crc.nd.edu/