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Previous Essay Prize Winners

2001-2002

  • Catherine E. Boyd Long Essay Prize: Eli M. Barach '02. Fear and Loathing in East Anglia: Concepts of Civilization and Wilderness in Felix's Life of Guthlac.
  • Philip H. Niles Short Essay Prize: Andrew Palmer '03. Adam and Eve Show Their Sensitive Sides.

2002-2003

  • Catherine E. Boyd Long Essay Prize: Katherine T. Newell '05. Knighthood, Chivalry, and the Tournament in Early Renaissance Europe.
  • Philip H. Niles Prize: Annaka Larson '06. St Macrina. Holy Woman or Holy Man?
  • Philip H. Niles Short Essay Prize: Sarala Puthuval '05. Le savoir et les causes des monstres chez Ambroise ParĂ©.

2003-2004

  • Catherine E. Boyd Long Essay Prize: Katherine T. Newell '05. The 'Pure Balm': The French and English Military Classes, Treaties, and the Problem of Peace in the Hundred Years War.
  • Philip H. Niles Short Essay Prize: Rosalyn Claret '04. Recognizing Reality: Sulpicius Severus as Hagiographer.

2004-2005

  • Catherine E. Boyd Long Essay Prize: Miranda Blue '06. The Culture of Curiosity: Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lession of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp and the Anatomy Lesson Portrait in Seventeenth-Century Holland.
  • Philip H. Niles Short Essay Prize: Carolyn Speidel '05. Food, Body, and Power in the Life of Margery Kempe.

2005-2006

  • Catherine E. Boyd Long Essay Prize: Erica Peterson '06: From Care to Criminalization: An Analysis of the Role of Deservingness in Sixteenth-Century English Poor Laws.
  • Philip H. Niles Short Essay Prize: Dashini Jeyathurai '07: Exorcizing Female Power in The Fairie Queene: The Treatment of Duessa in the Book of Holiness

  • Philip H. Niles Short Essay Prize: Matthew Ruen '07: So Happy (and Successful) Together: Sworn Agreements and Army Cohesion in the Siege of Lisbon, Portugal.

2006-2007

  • Catherine E. Boyd Long Essay Prize: Michael Draper '07: Mandeville: Cartographer of Christianity
  • Philip H. Niles Short Essay Prize: Joshua M. O'Brien '09: Les Aides pour la Delivrance: The Practical and Political Selection of a Vital Instrument in the Effort to Raise the Ransom Payments for King Jean II