The Harold J. Grimm Prize

About This Award

Harold J. Grimm Prize, named for Professor Harold J. Grimm of Indiana and Ohio State Universities, author and scholar, pioneer in American Reformation Studies, one of the founders of the Society for Reformation Research, editor of the Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte, as well as doctoral advisor and friend of many scholars, is awarded annually by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference for the best article published during the previous year which reflects and sustains Grimm’s lifelong search for a broad understanding of the Reformation as a fundamentally religious phenomenon which permeated the whole civilization of Europe in the Reformation Era.

Articles published in any journal qualify for the prize, but preference will be given to those published in the previous calendar year in The Sixteenth Century Journal, Archive for Reformation History, Church History, and Renaissance Quarterly.

The Board of Directors of the Center for Reformation Research shall appoint three scholars to serve on the selection committee. Members of the committee shall be members either of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference or the Society for Reformation Research. The director of the center shall serve as chair for the committee. The prize is $500.00.

Announcement and award of the prize will be made by the chair of the prize committee at the annual business meeting of the SCSC. The Sixteenth Century Journal will print an announcement of the winner in the spring issue of it publication.

Previous Winners

• 2008 - Ray Mentzer “Fasting, Piety and Anxiety among French Reformed Protestants,” Church History 76 (2007): 330-62.
• 2007 - Una Roman D'Elia, “Drawing Christ's Blood: Michelangelo. Vittoria Colonna, and the Aesthetics of Reform” Renaissance Quarterly (Spring 2006)
• 2006 - Andrew Keitt, “The Miraculous Body of Evidence: Visionary Experience, Medical Discourse and the Inquisition in Seventeenth Century Spain,” Sixteenth Century Journal 36 (2005): 77-96
• 2005 –Shared by the following:
  N. Shepardson, Gender and the Rhetoric of Martyrdom in Jean Crespin’s “Histoire des vrays tesmoins” in Sixteenth Century Journal 5, 1 (2004): 155-174
                    and
  M. L. Hickerson, “Gospelling sisters ‘goinge up and downe’: John Foxe  and disorderly women,” Sixteenth Century Journal  35, 4 (2004), pp.  1035-1051.
• 2004 – Shared by the following:
  Nikki Shepardson, “Gender and the Rhetoric of Martyrdom in Jean Crespin's Histoire des vrays tesmoins,” Sixteenth Century Journal 35
  (2004): 155-74
                    and
  Megan L. Hickerson, “Gospelling Sisters ‘goinge up and dowse’: John Foxe
  and Disorderly Women,” Sixteenth Century Journal 35 (2004): 1035-51
• 2003 – Bonnie J. Noble, “A work in which the angels are wont to rejoice: Lucas Cranach's Schneeberg Altarpiece” 34 (2003) Sixteenth Century Journal pp. 1011-37.
• 2002 – Craig Harline, “Miracles and This World: The Battle for the Jesus Oak” in Archive for Reformation History (2002): 217-38.