The faculty are delighted to announce that Clara Bykvist has won the 2026 Medium Ævum Essay Prize for her article entitled 'The Liber Iparchi: A Twelfth Century Forgery of Ancient Astronomy’.
The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature has awarded the Medium Ævum Essay Prize since 2008. The competition is run annually, with postgraduates and those recently graduated with a higher degree invited to submit an essay on a topic that falls within the range of the interests of Medium Ævum in the medieval period (loosely defined as the fifth to the fifteenth century, in the Western calendar).
As winner of the Essay Prize Clara will receive a cash prize of £500. The winning article is also eligible to be considered for publication in Medium Ævum, subject to the usual editorial procedures of the journal.
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