A Clerk of Oxford wins best History Blog of the Year award
Eleanor Parker’s blog A Clerk of Oxford has been named Blog of the Year during the Longman-History Today awards, which was held last week.
Medieval Graffiti project wins national award
A local community archaeology project that searches Norfolk’s medieval churches for medieval graffiti inscriptions has received national recognition this week with the announcement that it has been award the prestigious ‘Most Innovative’ Award by the national Community Archive and Heritage Group (CAHG).
Medieval Graffiti project wins national archaeology award
The Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Project, a volunteer led archaeology group that searches England’s medieval churches for early graffiti inscriptions, has been awarded the prestigious Marsh Community Archaeology Award.
Robin Fleming awarded MacArthur Fellowship
Robin Fleming, one of America’s leading early medieval historians, has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called ‘Genius Grant’.
‘Alfred’s Wars’ wins Medieval Military History Book of the Year
A book on Anglo-Saxon warfare, researched and written by Dr Ryan Lavelle, a lecturer at the University of Winchester, has won the prestigious Verbruggen Prize from the international society De Re Militari.
Margot Fassler wins 2012 Otto Gründler Book Prize
Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, was awarded the 2012 Otto Gründler Book Prize for her book The Virgin of Chartres: Making History Through Liturgy and the Arts.
Exemplaria receives the Phoenix Award for most improved journal
Exemplaria, an academic journal dedicated to medieval and Renaissance studies from Maney Publishing, has received the 2011 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals
President Obama to award National Humanities Medal to medievalist
UCLA’s Teofilo F. Ruiz, an internationally recognized historian whose work focuses on medieval Spain and Europe, will be awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama today.
Lorraine Stock awarded the Bonnie Wheeler Summer Fellowship
From Camelot to Sherwood Forest, Lorraine Stock has taken students on a host of literary adventures. Now, the University of Houston associate professor…
John Davey Research Grant for Medieval Studies
When it comes to history, especially medieval history, the awards and accolades are usually reserved for the professional scholar – those with multiple…
Medievalist awarded grant to research Mirror to Devout People
Paul Patterson, assistant professor of English at St.Joseph University, has been awarded $8,200 to pursue his personal project, an edition of the Mirror…
Dr. Tomás Ó Carragáin wins award for Irish Medieval Studies
Dr. Tomás Ó Carragáin, a lecturer at University College Cork, has been awarded the inaugural Four Courts Press Michael Adams Prize in Irish…
The Richard III Foundation Announces New Student Program
The Richard III Foundation, Inc., a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to research into the life and reign of King Richard III, has launched…
Norfolk Graffiti project wins national award
A local community archaeology project aimed at discovering and recording examples of medieval graffiti has won a prestigious national award. The Norfolk Medieval…
New Prize for Irish Medieval Studies
Scholars working on medieval history in Ireland can now compete for the best peer-reviewed essay/article in their field. Four Courts Press and the…
Undergrad thesis: ‘Feathered Funerals: Birds in Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Rites’ wins award
Ruth Nugent of the University of Chester has been awarded The Society for Medieval Archaeology’s John Hurst Prize for the Best Undergraduate Dissertation,…
Student wins scholarship to study early medieval Scottish history
Just five months after she graduated from University of California – Santa Cruz with a bachelor’s degree in history, Cynthia Thickpenny received a…
Book – Richard Rolle and His Readers: Defining the Literary in the Fifteenth Century – receives fellowship
Katherine Zieman, an assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded a National Humanities Center Fellowship for work…
Book on medieval astrology wins award
Dr. Scott Hendrix, assistant professor of history at Carroll University, has published a new book that has been awarded the D. Simon Evans…
New Zealand medieval scholar wins award from university
Dr Simone Celine Marshall has been named one of the 2010 recipients of the University of Otago’s Early Career Awards for Distinction in…
Article on Old English Bede, Book on Frankish Formulae, win Royal Historical Society prizes
The Royal Historical Society announced their awards for outstanding historical scholarship and achievement earlier this summer, and two young medievalists came out as…
York Archaeological Trust hopes to win award
The Hollywood Oscars are still a few months away but the York Archaeological Trust is waiting with bated breath to hear whether it has…