It is with great pleasure that we announce this year's 2008 winner:

Dr Margaret Small, Lecturer in History at the University of Birmingham, for her essay:

From Jellied Seas to Open Waterways: Redefining the Northern Limit of the Knowable World’, Renaissance Studies 21:3 (June 2007), 315-339.

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SRS Annual Essay Prize Winner 2007

Dr Kevin Killeen, Lecturer in Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds, for his essay:

‘“Three pounds and fifteen shillings; the inconsiderable salary of Judas”: seventeenth-century exegesis, cultural historiography and Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica’, Renaissance Studies 20:4 (Sept 2006), 502-519.

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SRS Annual Essay Prize Winner 2006

Dr Monica Azzolini, Ahmanson Fellow in the Department of History at University of New South Wales, currently researching Learned Medicine and Astrology at the Sforza Court, 1450-1499, for her essay:

'In praise of art: text and context of Leonardo's Paragone and its critique of the arts and sciences' in Renaissance Studies, Vol 19, Issue 4, (Sept. 2005), pp. 487-510.

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