Duff Cooper Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 61 (2016) Winner
Christopher de Hamel
クリスファー・デ・ハメル
Kurisutofā de Hameru
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1950-11-20 （London, England）
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- London, England → New Zealand (Dunedin) → Cambridge
Career
- Occupations
- academic librarian, expert on medieval manuscripts
- Active Years
- 1975-2024
- Affiliations
- Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Society of Antiquaries of London, Royal Historical Society, Roxburghe Club
- Memberships
- Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA), Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS)
- Nominations
- Waterstones Book of the Year shortlist (2016)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Otago | — | History | honours degree in history | — | New Zealand |
| Oxford University | — | — | DPhil | — | United Kingdom |
University of Otago
History
Degree:
honours degree in history
Year of Graduation:
1972
Country:
New Zealand
Graduated with honours in history
Oxford University
Degree:
DPhil
Year of Graduation:
1978
Country:
United Kingdom
Research on 12th-century Bible commentaries
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Duff Cooper Prize | Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts | — | — | winner |
| 2017 | Wolfson History Prize | Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts | — | — | winner |
Duff Cooper Prize
2016
Work:
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
Result:
winner
Wolfson History Prize
2017
Work:
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Wolfson History Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 94 (2017) Winner
Works
Major Works
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
2016 HistoryJourneys through remarkable medieval manuscripts and their stories.
medieval manuscriptshistorycultural heritage
Bibliography
- Geoffrey Chaucer – Prologue to the Canterbury Tales – A Hitherto Unrecorded Variant Reading
- A History of Illuminated Manuscripts
- Syon Abbey: The Library of the Bridgettine Nuns and Their Peregrinations After the Reformation
- Scribes and Illuminators
- The Book: A History of the Bible
- The Rothschilds and Their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts
- The Macclesfield Alphabet Book: A Facsimile
- Gilding the Lilly: A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library
- Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
- Making Medieval Manuscripts
- The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket
- The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- detailed historical narrativescholarly analysis
- Recurring Motifs
- medieval manuscriptsilluminations
Legacy
World-renowned authority on medieval manuscripts, winner of major literary prizes.