The Jozef IJsewijn Prize

Prof. Dr. Jozef IJsewijn (1932–1998) was the inspiration behind the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. The Association is offering an award for the best book published in the interval between congresses as a way to honour the late Professor IJsewijn and as a stimulus for young scholars to engage in Neo-Latin research. Scholars who have published their first book in the field are invited to submit this work to the Chair of the Advisory Board of the IANLS. The book must be written in one of the official languages of the IANLS. The winner’s name will be announced at the opening of the 2025 congress, and he/she will be granted life-long membership of the Association. The editor and winner should produce a poster about the book, which should be exposed during the entire congress. Please note that the winner must attend the opening ceremony of the IANLS congress, when the prize will be presented. Applicants for the IJsewijn Prize are strongly encouraged to attend the congress even if they have not submitted a paper proposal.

The prize is being offered for a book published during the triennium January 2022 – December 2024. Two hard copies (or a pdf file) of any book submitted should be sent to Alejandro Coroleu, the Chair of the Advisory Board, no later than 1 February 2025. He will forward them to the members of the jury for evaluation. His address is:

Alejandro Coroleu
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Departament de Filologia Catalana
Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, Edifici B
08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès
Spain
e-mail: alejandro.coroleu@uab.cat

Prize Winners

Leuven 2022

Christophe Bertiau

Le latin entre tradition et modernité. Jean Dominique Fuss (1782–1860) et son époque. Hildesheim: Olms 2020 (Noctes Neolatinae, 39). ISBN: 978-3-487-15949-2 [Olms.de]

Albacete 2018

Thomas Hendrickson

Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism. The De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius. Leiden / Boston: Brill 2017 (Brills Studies in Intellectual History, 265/20). ISBN: 978-90-04-33816-6 [Brill.com]

Vienna 2015

Valéry Berlincourt

Commenter la Thébaïde (16e–19e s.). Caspar von Barth et la tradition exégétique de Stace. Leiden / Boston: Brill 2013 (Mnemosyne Supplements, 354). ISBN: 978-90-04-20711-0 [Brill.com]

Münster 2012

Aline Smeesters-Lelubre

Aux rives de la lumière : La poésie de la naissance chez les auteurs néo-latins des anciens Pays-Bas entre la fin du XVe siècle et le milieu du XVIIe siècle. Leuven: Leuven UP 2011 (Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia, 29). ISBN: 9789058678829 [LUP.be]