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The Roland H. Bainton Book Prizes
 About This Award
The Roland H. Bainton
Book Prizes are named in honor of one of the most irenic
church historians of the twentieth century. Roland H. Bainton
was professor of church history at the seminary of Yale
University for many years, the advisor of many Ph.D. students,
the author of over a dozen important books, and an ardent
supporter of early modern studies.
Three prizes are awarded
yearly for the best books written in English dealing with
three categories within the time frame of 1450-1660: Art
and Music History, History/Theology, and Literature. A
fourth prize for reference works is awarded occasionally.
The prize-winning book in each category is chosen by a
committee of three conference members appointed by the
president of the SCSC who shall also designate one of the
three to serve as chair.
Criteria for selection shall include:
1) quality and originality of research
2) methodological skill and/or innovation
3) development of fresh and stimulating interpretations
or insights
4) literary quality
Nominations for the prize
may be made by anyone. Either the publisher or the author
shall send three case-bound copies of the book to the Executive
Director of the SCSC who in turn will send books to each
member of the various prize committees. The books to be
considered for the prize will be those books published
within the preceding calendar year. Anthologies and collections
of essays will not be accepted, except in the reference
category. The deadline for submission of a book will be
1 April. Announcement of the awards will be made by the
chair of each committee at the annual business meeting
of the SCSC. An announcement of the awards will also be
published in The Sixteenth Century Journal and Perspectives
on History of
the American Historical Association. In each category,
the award will include a certificate to be sent to the
publisher and the author plus $500.00 to be sent to the
author.
Previous Winners
- 2009 -
History/Theology: Alison Games, The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion,
1560-1660 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
Literature: Jennifer Summit, Memory’s Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2008)
Art History: Karen Bowen and Dirk Imhof, Christopher
Plantin and Engraved Book Illustrations
in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
- 2008 -
History/Theology: Sara Beam, Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making
of Absolutism in France (Cornell: Ithaca & London,
2007).
Honorable Mention:
Charles Zika, The Appearance of Witchcraft: Print
and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Routledge:
London & New York, 2007)
Literature: Lorna Hutson, The Invention of Suspicion: Law and
Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2007). Honorable Mention: Bradin Cormack, A
Power to Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature,
and the Rise of Common Law (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2007)
Art History: Thomas P. Campbell, Henry VIII
and the Art of Majesty. Tapestries at the Tudor
Court. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)
Reference: Diana Robin, Anne R. Larsen, and Carole Levin,
eds., Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance. Italy,
France,
and England (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC/CLIO, 2007)
- 2007 -
History/Theology: Valerie
Kivelson, Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings
in Seventeenth-Century Russia. (Cornell University
Press)
Art History:Larry
Silver, Peasant Scenes and Landscapes; The Rise of
Pictorial Genres in
the Antwerp Art Market (University of Pennsylvania
Press)
Literature: Robert Appelbaum, Aguecheek's
Beef, Belch's Hicup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections:
Literature, Culture, and Food among the
Early Moderns (University of Chicago Press)
Honorable
Mention: Debora Shuger, Censorship and Cultural Sensibility:
The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England (University
of Pennsylvania Press)
Reference: Richard
M. Golden, ed. The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft(ABC-CLIO)
- 2006 -
History and Theology: Allyson M. Poska,
Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain:
The Peasants of Galicia (Oxford University Press, 2005)
Honorable Mention: Linda Levy Peck, Consuming
Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century
England (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Art History: Bronwen Wilson, The World in Venice: Print, the City and Early Modern
Identity (University of Toronto Press, 2005)
Literature: Andrew Hadfield, Shakespeare
and Republicanism
(Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Reference: The Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare:
A Comprehensive Guide for Students (Greenwood Press,
2005)
History and Theology: Lyndal Roper. The Witch
craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany (Yale
University Press, 2004)
Honorable Mention: Govind Sreenivasan, The
Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726 (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Art History: Joseph Herl, Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism:
Choir, Congregation, and Three Centuries of Conflict (Oxford
University Press, 2004)
Literature: Deanne Williams, The French Fetish
from Shakespeare to Chaucer (Cambridge U Press, 2004)
Reference: Robert Tittler, Norman Jones, eds. A
Companion to Tudor Britain (Blackwell Publishing Ltd,
2004)
- 2004 -
Art History: Joseph Herl, Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism:
Choir, Congregation, and Three Centuries of Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Literature: Deanne Williams, The French Fetish from Shakespeare
to Chaucer
(Cambridge University Press, 2004)
History: Lyndal Roper, The Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in
Baroque Germany (Yale University Press, 2004)
* Honorable mention to Govind Sreenivasan, The Peasants of Ottobeuren,
1487-1726 (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Reference: Robert Tittler and Norman Jones, editors, A Companion
to Tudor Britain (Blackwell, 2004)
- 2003 -
Art History: Filip Vermeylen, Painting for
the Market: Commercialization of Art in Antwerp's Golden
Age (Turnhout: Brepols)
Literature: Margaret Ferguson, Dido’s Daughters:
Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and
France (University of Chicago Press, 2003)
History: Francis Oakley, The Conciliarist
Tradition (Oxford, 2003)
Reference: Jonathan Dewald, Europe, 1450-1789:
Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World (Charles Scribner’s
Sons, 2003)
History and Theology: Ethan Shagan, Popular
Politics and the English Reformation (Cambridge, 2002)
Literature: Jeffrey Knapp. Shakespeare's
Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England (Chicago, 2002)
Art History and Music: Jeffrey Chipps Smith,
Sensuous Worship: Jesuits and the Art of the Early
Catholic Reformation in
Germany (Princeton, 2002)
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