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Past Winners: The Jim Falls Paper Prize

Past Winner Include:
2011   AnnaLinden Weller, Rutgers University
           "Transmittable Apocalypses: Byzantine Political Authority and the Co-Option of Western Eschatological Narrative in the First Crusade"

2010   Daniel J. Menold, University of Missouri - Columbia
           "Sacred History: Hagiographical Constructs and the 'Historical' Gilbert of Sempringham"

            Honorable Mention: 
Michael Wehrman, Yale University
           "Rome and Miracles in the Writings of the Venerable Bede"


2009
   James Bennett, Ohio State University
           "The Once and Future Burghers: Social Memory and Civic Identity in Late Medieval St. Albans"

2008   Jennifer Culver, St. Louis University
           "The Structure of Personal Experience: Rollean Mysticism in Piers Plowman"

2007   Julian Hendrix, King's College, Cambridge
           "The Origins of Monastic Intercession: Thought and Practice, Though Versus Practice"

2006   Martha Johnson-Olin, University of Missouri-Kansas City
           "And lat hym care, and wepe, and wrynge, and waille': Chaucer's Clerk as Advocate of Masculine Virtue"

2005   Cindy Rogers, Oklahoma State University
           "Arming Arthur: The Middle English Inheritance of Arming Scenes from Classical Epics"

2004   Lesley Allen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
           "Mapping Conversion in Pearl"

2003   Jason Hardgrave, University of Kansas
           "Pimps, Prostitutes, and Pedophiles: Female Perpetrators of Sex Crimes in Fourteenth-Century Venice"

2002   Carola Dwyer, San Diego State University
           "^Noch liehter danne got getan: Coveting Armor in Wolfram's Parzival^"

2001  Marie A. Kelleher, University of Kansas
           "Sicut vir uxor: Clerics' Concubines in the Diocese of Barcelona"
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