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The Bethell Prize Recipients and Judges
| Year |
Recipient |
Judge |
| 2007 |
Austin Mason, “Buried Buckets: Ritual Behavior before England's Conversion” |
Peter Coss, Cardiff University, Wales |
| 2006 |
Charles Stanton, “The Uses of Naval Power in the Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily” |
Kenneth Pennington, Catholic University of America |
| 2005 |
Nicholas Paul, “The Chronicle of Fulk le Réchin: A Reassessment” |
William Aird, Cardiff University, Wales |
| 2004 |
Peter Crooks, “'Hobbes', 'Dogs' and Politics in the Ireland of Lionel of Antwerp, 1361-6” |
Richard Abels, US Naval Academy |
| 2003 |
Nathaniel Lane Taylor, Harvard University, "Kin and the Courts: Testimony of Kinship in Lawsuits of Angevin England" |
Robin Fleming, Boston College |
| 2002 |
Diana Korngiebel, Worcester College: "Forty Acres and a Mule: The Mechanics of English Settlement in Northeast Wales after the Edwardian Conquest" |
Ralph Turner, Florida State University |
| 2001 |
Alan Cooper, Colgate University: "The Anglo-Saxon Law of the Highway" |
Bernard S. Bachrach, University of Minnesota |
| 2000 |
Shashi Jayakumar, Balliol College, Oxford: "Some Reflections on the 'Foreign Policies' of Edgar 'the Peaceable'"; and Jennifer Paxton, Georgetown University: "Forging Communities: Memory and Identity in Post-Conquest England" |
Janet S. Loengard, Moravian College |
First series: From 1983 until 1999, the Bethell Prize was awarded at each conference for a paper given at that conference by a graduate student or junior faculty member, and submitted in advance to that year's judge. Through 1990, the Bethell Prize Essay was published in Albion; since then, in the Haskins Society Journal.
| Year |
Recipient |
Judge |
| 1999 |
John Cotts, UC Berkeley: "The Critique of the Secular Clergy in Peter of Blois and Nigellus de Longchamp," Haskins Society Journal 12 (forthcoming). |
Sally N. Vaughn, University of Houston |
| 1998 |
Laura Gathagan, City University of New York: "The Trappings of Power: The Coronation of Matilda of Flanders," Haskins Society Journal 10-11 (forthcoming). |
James J. Johns, Cornell University |
| 1997 |
Emily Albu, UC Davis: "The Normans and Their Myths," Haskins Society Journal 10-11 (forthcoming). |
C.P. Lewis, University of Liverpool |
| 1996 |
Robert Helmerichs, UC Santa Barbara: "Princeps, Comes, Dux Normannorum: Rollonid Designators and Their Significance," Haskins Society Journal 9 (2001 for 1997): 57-77. |
Susan Reynolds, Senior Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, London |
| 1995 |
Deborah Gerish, UC Santa Barbara: "The True Cross and the Kings of Jerusalem," Haskins Society Journal 8 (1999 for 1996): 137-55. |
David Abulafia, University of Cambridge |
| 1994 |
Emma Cownie, University of Wales: "Religious Patronage at Post-Conquest Bury St. Edmunds," Haskins Society Journal 7 (1998 for 1995): 1-9. |
Richard Helmholz, University of Chicago Law School |
| 1993 |
Cary L. Dier, University of Houston: "The Proper Relationship between Lord and Vassal: Toward a Rationale for Anglo-Norman Litigation," Haskins Society Journal 6 (1994): 1-12. |
H.E.J. Cowdrey, St Edmund Hall, Oxford |
| 1992 |
Hugh Thomas, University of Miami: "Portrait of a Medieval Anti-Semite: Richard Malebisse Vero Agnomine Mala Bestia," Haskins Society Journal 6 (1993): 1-15. |
David Crouch, University College, Scarborough; University of Leeds |
| 1991 |
Robert Babcock, UC Santa Barbara: "Imbeciles and Normans: The Ynfydion of Gruffudd ap Rhys Reconsidered," Haskins Society Journal 5 (1992): 1-9. |
Robert L. Benson, UCLA |
| 1990 |
Ted Johnson-South, University of Rhode Island: "Competition for King Alfred's Aura in the Last Century of Anglo-Saxon England," Albion 23 (1991): 613-26. |
Emily Tabuteau, Michigan State University |
| 1989 |
Kimberley LoPrete, University of Chicago: "The Anglo-Norman Card of Adela of Blois," Albion 22 (1990): 569-89. |
Marjorie Chibnall, University of Cambridge |
| 1988 |
Donald Fleming, UC Santa Barbara: "Milites as Attestors to Charters in England, 1101-1300," Albion 22 (1990): 185-98. |
W. L. Warren, The Queen's University of Belfast |
| 1987 |
Lynn K. Barker, North Carolina State University: "MS Bodl. Canon. Pal. Lat. 131 and a Lost Lactantius of John of Salisbury: Evidence in Search of a French Critic of Thomas Becket," Albion 22 (1990): 21-37. |
Michael Clanchy, University of London |
| 1986 |
Mary Lou Ruud, UC Santa Barbara: "Episcopal Reluctance: Lanfranc's Resignation Reconsidered," Albion 19 (1987): 163-75. |
Peter Sawyer, Emeritus, University of Leeds |
| 1985 |
Michael E. Jones, Bates College: "The Historicity of the Alleluja Victory," Albion 18 (1986): 363-73. |
R.H.C. Davis, University of Birmingham; Merton College, Oxford |
| 1984 |
Sally N. Vaughn, University of Houston: "Lanfranc at Bec: A Reinterpretation," Albion 17 (1985): 135-48. |
Paul Hyams, Pembroke College, Oxford |
| 1983 |
Katharin Mack, UC Santa Barbara: "Changing Thegns: Cnut's Conquest and the English Aristocracy," Albion 16 (1984): 375-87. |
Robert Patterson, University of South Carolina |
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