The Haskins Medal is an annual medal

Medal

A medal, or medallion, is generally a circular object that has been sculpted, molded, cast, struck, stamped, or some way rendered with an insignia, portrait, or other artistic rendering. A medal may be awarded to a person or organization as a form of recognition for athletic, military, scientific,...

 awarded by the Medieval Academy of America

Medieval Academy of America

The Medieval Academy of America is the largest organization in the United States promoting excellence in the field of medieval studies. It was founded in 1925 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts...

. It is awarded for the production of a distinguished book in the field of medieval studies

Medieval studies

-Development:The term 'medieval studies' began to be adopted by academics in the opening decades of the twentieth century, initially in the titles of books like G. G. Coulton's Ten Medieval Studies , to emphasize a greater interdisciplinary approach to a historical subject...

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Award

The Haskins Medal is awarded by a committee of three; a chairman, and two members appointed by the president of the Medieval Academy of America, on a three year rotating term. The presentation of the medal is announced each spring at the annual meeting of the Academy. Graham Carey designed the Haskins Medal in 1939, and each one has the name of the recipient and the date engraved on the edge. The medal was first awarded in 1940, and is presented in honor of medieval historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

 Charles Homer Haskins, the founder and second president of the academy.

List of Medalists

Haskings Medal recipients since 1980:

2011: Caroline Walker Bynum, Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007

2010: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Relevatory Writing in Late Medieval England, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006

2009: Barbara Newman, God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003

2008: Charles B. McClendon, The Origins of Medieval Architecture: Building in Europe, A.D. 600-900, Yale University Press, 2005

2007: Thomas F. Madden, Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003

2006: Anne Walters Roberston, Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in His Musical Works, Cambridge University Press, 2002

2005: Michael McCormick, Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce, A.D. 300-900, Cambridge University Press, 2001

2004: Peter Fergusson and Stuart Harrison

Stuart Harrison

Stuart Charles Harrison is a former Welsh cricketer. Harrison was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born in Cwmbran, Monmouthshire....

, Rievaulx Abbey: Community, Architecture, Memory. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999

2003: Mary J. Carruthers, The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400 - 1200. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1998

2002: Paul Freedman

Paul Freedman

Paul Freedman is the Chester D Tripp Professor of History at Yale University. He specializes in medieval social history, the history of Spain, the study of medieval peasantry, and medieval cuisine....

, Images of the Medieval Peasant. Stanford University Press, 1999.

2001: Brian Tierney, The Idea of Natural Rights: Studies on Natural Rights, Natural Law and Church Law, 1150–1625. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.

2000: William Chester Jordan

William Chester Jordan

William Chester Jordan is an American medievalist, in which field he is a Haskins Medal winner. He is currently the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and Chairman of the History Department at Princeton University. He is also a former Director of the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton...

, The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996.

1999: Jaroslav Folda

Jaroslav Folda

Jaroslav Folda is a medievalist, in which field he is a Haskins Medal winner; he is a scholar in the history of the Art of the Crusades and the N. Ferebee Taylor Professor of the History of Art at the University of North Carolina. His area of interest for teaching and research is the art of the...

, The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

1998: Marcia L. Colish, Peter Lombard

Peter Lombard

Peter Lombard was a scholastic theologian and bishop and author of Four Books of Sentences, which became the standard textbook of theology, for which he is also known as Magister Sententiarum-Biography:Peter Lombard was born in Lumellogno , in...

. 2 vols. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994.

1997: Robert Deshman, The Benedictional of Æthelwold. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.

1996: Siegfried Wenzel, Macaronic Sermons: Bilingualism and Preaching in Late-Medieval England. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.

1995: J. N. Hillgarth, Readers and Books in Majorca, 1229-1550. Paris: C.N.R.S., 1991.

1994: Karl F. Morrison, Understanding Conversion. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992.

1993: Madeline H. Caviness, Sumptuous Arts at the Royal Abbeys in Reims and Braine: Ornatus elegantiae, varietate stupendes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.

1992: Paul Oskar Kristeller

Paul Oskar Kristeller

Paul Oskar Kristeller was an important scholar of Renaissance humanism. He was awarded the Haskins Medal in 1992. He was last active as Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University in New York, where he mentored both Irving Louis Horowitz and A...

, Iter Italicum: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and Other Libraries. Vols. 4 and 5. London: The Warburg Institute; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1989, 1990.

1991: Walter Goffart

Walter Goffart

Walter Andre Goffart is a historian of the later Roman Empire and the early Middle Ages who specializes in research on the barbarian kingdoms of those periods. He is a senior research scholar and lecturer at Yale University....

, The Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 550-800): Jordanes

Jordanes

Jordanes, also written Jordanis or Jornandes, was a 6th century Roman bureaucrat, who turned his hand to history later in life....

, Gregory of Tours

Gregory of Tours

Saint Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of Gaul. He was born Georgius Florentius, later adding the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather...

, Bede

Bede

Bede , also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria...

, and Paul the Deacon

Paul the Deacon

Paul the Deacon , also known as Paulus Diaconus, Warnefred, Barnefridus and Cassinensis, , was a Benedictine monk and historian of the Lombards.-Life:...

. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.

1990: John W. Baldwin

John W. Baldwin

John Wesley Baldwin is an American historian. He is Charles Homer Haskins professor of history emeritus at the Johns Hopkins University. Born in Chicago, he received his Hopkins Ph.D. in 1956 and joined the faculty in 1961. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in...

, The Government of Philip Augustus: Foundations of French Royal Power in the Middle Ages. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

1989: Thomas N. Bisson, Fiscal Accounts of Catalonia under the Early Count-Kings (1151-1213). 2 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

1988: Herbert Bloch

Herbert Bloch

Herbert Bloch was professor emeritus of Classics at Harvard and a renowned authority on Greek historiography, Roman epigraphy and archaeology, medieval monasticism, and the transmission of classical culture and literature....

, Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986.

1987: Joseph R. Strayer, The Reign of Philip the Fair. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.

1986: William Roach, The Continuations of the Old French "Perceval" of Chrétien de Troyes. 5: The Third Continuation by Manessier. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1983.

1985: Jaroslav Pelikan

Jaroslav Pelikan

Jaroslav Jan Pelikan was a scholar in the history of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history.-Early years:...

, The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine. 3: The Growth of Medieval Theology (600-1300). 4: Reformation of Church and Dogma (1300-1700). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978, 1984.

1984: Stanley B. Greenfield and Fred C. Robinson, A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980.

1983: Jean Bony, The English Decorated Style: Gothic Architecture Transformed, 1250-1350. Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1979.

1982: Richard Krautheimer

Richard Krautheimer

Richard Krautheimer was a 20th century art historian, architectural historian, Baroque scholar, and Byzantinist....

, Rome

Rome

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, A Profile of a City, 312-1308. Princeton: Princeotn University Press, 1980.

1981: No award.

1980: Kenneth M. Setton, The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571). 2 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1976, 1978.