Prizes – Past Winners

The Verbruggen Prize

  • 2022: Alan Murray, Baldwin of Bourcq: Count of Edessa and King of Jerusalem (1100-1131) (Abingdon: Routledge)
  • 2021: Nicholas Morton, The Crusader States and their Neighbours (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
  • 2020: Florin Curta, Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 2 vols. (Leiden and Boston: Brill).
  • 2019: John D. Hosler, The Siege of Acre, 1189-1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle that Decided the Third Crusade (London and New Haven: Yale University Press).
  • 2018: Hussein Fancy, The Mercenary Mediterranean: Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press).
  • 2017: Adrian J. Boas (ed.), with Rabei G. Khamisy, Montfort: History, Early Research and Recent Studies of the Principal Fortresses of the Teutonic Order in the Latin East (Leiden and Boston: Brill).
  • 2016: Christophe Masson, Des guerres en Italie avant les Guerres d’Italie: Les entreprises militaires francaises dans la Peninsule a l’epoque du Grand Schisme d’Occident (Rome: Ecole francaise de Rome).
  • 2015: Leif Inge Ree Petersen, Siege Warfare and Military Organisation in the Successor States (400-800 AD) (Leiden and Boston: Brill).
  • 2014: L.J. Andrew Villalon and Donald J. Kagay (eds.), The Hundred Years War, 3 vols. (Leiden and Boston: Brill).
  • 2013: John Baker and Stuart Brookes, Beyond the Burghal Hidage. Anglo-Saxon Civil Defence in the Viking Age (Leiden and Boston: Brill).
  • 2012: Ryan Lavelle, Alfred’s Wars: Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age (Woodbridge: Boydell).
  • 2011: David Simpkin, The English Aristocracy at War: from the Welsh wars of Edward I to the Battle of Bannockburn (Woodbridge: Boydell).
  • 2009: Clifford J. Rogers, Soldiers’ Lives through History: The Middle Ages (Westport, CT: Greenwood).
  • 2007: Kelly DeVries (ed.), A Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology, 3 vols. (Leiden and Boston: Brill).
  • 2004: Guy Halsall, Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450-900 (New York: Routledge).
  • 2003: Clifford J. Rogers, War, Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360 (Woodbridge: Boydell).
  • 2002: Richard W. Kaeuper, Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

The Gillingham Prize

  • 2020: Michael Harbinson, “The Lance in the Fifteenth Century: How French Cavalry Overcame the English Defensive System in the Latter Part of the Hundred Years War,” Journal of Medieval Military History 17 (2019).
  • 2019: Pierre Gaite, “Exercises in Arms: the Physical and Mental Combat Training of Men-at-Arms in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,” JMMH 16 (2018).
  • 2018: not awarded
  • 2017: Michael Lower, “Medieval European Mercenaries in North Africa: the Value of Difference,” JMMH 14 (2016).
  • 2016: Tonio Andrade, “Late Medieval Divergences: Comparative Perspectives on Early Gunpowder Warfare in Europe and China,” JMMH 13 (2014).
  • 2015: Mamuka Tsurtsumia, “Couched Lance and Mounted Shock Combat in the East:  the Georgian Experience,”  JMMH 12 (2014).
  • 2013-14: not awarded
  • 2012: split award: Valerie Eads “The Last Italian Expedition of Henry IV: Re-reading the Vita Mathildis of Donizone of Canossa,” JMMH 8 (2010); and Guilhem Pépin, “The French Offenses of 1404–07 Against Anglo-Gascon Aquitaine,” JMMH 9 (2011).
  • 2011: not awarded
  • 2010: not awarded
  • 2009: Rob Jones, “Re-thinking the Origins of the ‘Irish’ Hobelar,” Cardiff Historical Papers (Cardiff University, U.K., 2008).

The Bernard S. Bachrach Prize

  • 2020: not awarded
  • 2019: Richard Barber, The Boydell Press
  • 2018: Clifford J. Rogers, United States Military Academy at West Point
  • 2017: Kelly DeVries, Loyola University, Maryland
  • 2016: Kenneth G. Madison, Iowa State University
  • 2015: John France, University of Swansea
  • 2014: Bernard S. Bachrach, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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