Book Awards
Each year, the winners of the Otto Gründler Book Prize and the La corónica Book Award are announced during the ICMS plenary lectures. The following are this year's winners, announced at the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 14–16, 2026.
Otto Gründler Book Prize
Jack Hartnell, Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image, Princeton University Press, 2025
"The book displays remarkable erudition across many disciplines, while remaining accessible to a general scholarly audience. The panel of judges was particularly impressed by these features, which make it both important and very readable, and thus especially useful for graduate students and emerging scholars in the field. Its interdisciplinary approach to visual materials offers a compelling model for the work of future scholars. In particular, the representation of the global context for medieval and early modern surgical diagrams, and their continued relevance for later periods, powerfully demonstrates the significance of medieval scholarship to modern readers.”
La corónica Book Award
Anita Savo, Portraying Authorship: Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority, University of Toronto Press, 2024
"Savo’s monograph is an important contribution to the study of medieval authorship. She brings together, with remarkable clarity, literary analysis and manuscript culture to show how Juan Manuel crafted an authorial identity that feels strikingly modern within the context of fourteenth-century Castile. Savo convincingly argues that Juan Manuel’s self-fashioning was not merely a literary pose but a strategy that shaped his contemporary reception and played a decisive role in securing his place in literary history. The book reshapes the way we think about what it meant to be an 'author' in a pre-print world."
