ICMA Annual Book Prize
Deadline: 31 May 2024
The ICMA invites submissions for the annual prize for best single- or co-authored book on any topic in medieval art. To be eligible for the 2024 competition, books must have been printed in 2023. No anthologies, exhibition catalogues, or special issues of journals can be considered.
The competition is international and open to all ICMA members. To join or renew, click here. A statement of current membership is required with each submission.
Languages of publication: English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish
Prize: US $1,000 to a single author, or US $1,000 split equally between co-authors.
Submission of books: only printed books are eligible for the prize. A statement of current ICMA membership must accompany each submission.
Presses and self-nominations: books must be sent directly to the jury members. Please email BookPrize@medievalart.org with the title(s), author(s), and press name. If self-nominating, please send along your press contact’s email.
JURY
Alexa Sand, chair (2025); Benjamin Anderson (2026), Till-Holger Borchert (2026), Luke A. Fidler (2027), Lynn Jones (2027)
WINNER
2023 ICMA ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE AWARDED TO:
Brigitte Buettner
The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022.
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WINNER
2022 ICMA ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE AWARDED TO:
Shirin Fozi
Romanesque Tomb Effigies: Death and Redemption in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021.
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WINNER
2021 ICMA ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE AWARDED TO:
Jessica Barker
Stone Fidelity: Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture
Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture, Boydell Press, 2020.
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WINNER
2020 ICMA ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE AWARDED TO:
Tracy Chapman Hamilton
Pleasure and Politics at the Court of France: The Artistic Patronage of Queen Marie of Brabant (1260-1321)
Brepols Publishing, Harvey Miller Series, 2019.
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WINNER
2019 ICMA ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE AWARDED TO:
Margaret S. Graves
Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam
Oxford University Press, 2018.
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The committee also recognizes this volume as Finalist:
Christopher R. Lakey
Sculptural Seeing: Relief, Optics, and the Rise of Perspective in Medieval Italy
Yale University Press, 2018.
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WINNER
2018 ICMA ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE AWARDED TO:
Isabelle Dolezalek
Arabic Script on Christian Kings. Textile Inscriptions on Royal Garments from Norman Sicily
De Gruyter, 2017.
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HONORABLE MENTION
2018 ICMA ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE AWARDED TO:
Heidi Gearhart
Theophilus and the Theory and Practice of Medieval Art
Penn State University Press, 2017.
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WINNER
2017 ICMA ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE AWARDED TO:
Ittai Weinryb
The Bronze Object in the Middle Ages: Sculpture, Material, Making
Cambridge University Press, 2016
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WINNER
2016 ICMA ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE AWARDED TO:
Sharon E.J. Gerstel
Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium: Art, Archaelogy, and Ethnography
Cambridge University Press, 2015
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