The joint winners of this year’s GHS Essay prize are:

Carmel Heeley (QMUL) for ‘Jewish Innovations to Conceptions of ‘German Belonging’: The Case of Munich Jewish Businesses’.

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Antonia Anstatt (Oxford) for ‘Empress and Virgin: Female Sainthood in the Early Thirteenth Century’.

Joint runners up were Ingrid Schreiber (Oxford): “Solitude and Sociability in Christian Jakob Kraus (1753-1807)” and Frederick Crofts (Cambridge): ‘Calvinist Heidelberg and the East: Marcus zum Lamm Collects Turcica, c. 1600’.