Ceræ is delighted to offer a prize of $200 (AUD), which will be awarded to the best themed or non-themed article submission submitted by a graduate student or early-career researcher (ECR) for Volume 13.
Ceræ considers the definition of an ECR:
- to be someone who has either been awarded their doctorate not more than 5 years prior to submitting their article for consideration,
- or has been awarded a masters-level or bachelor-level degree,
- and that a graduate student must be either currently enrolled in a higher-research degree, or have a dissertation currently under review.
Ceræ is able to offer this prize thanks to the generosity of our past and present sponsors. For a full list of the organisations which support us, please visit our Sponsorship page. If you wish to personally donate towards our essay prize fund, you are amazing! Please visit the Donations page to share your coins with Ceræ’s authors.
Previous Ceræ Prize Winners
Volume 12 (2025): Dreams, Visions, and Utopias
The Volume 12 prize winner will be announced in early 2026 following the publication of the volume.
Volume 11 (2024): Metamorphosis, Transformation, and Transmutation
Roxanne Bodsworth – Meet Me in My World: a creative prosimetric reconstruction of Aislinge Óenguso
Volume 10 (2023): Memory
Jacob Herrmann – Myths and Memories of the Arthurian Empire in The Awntyrs off Arthur
volume 9 (2022): Ritual: Practice, Performance, Perception
Solveig Marie Wang – Finnvitka: The Cultural Interface, Identity Negotiation, and Saami Ritual in Medieval Fennoscandia
Volume 8 (2021): Exile, Isolation, and quarantine
No prize awarded.
Volume 7 (2020): Minority and Marginalised Experiences:
Emma Louise Barlow – Emotional Minds and Bodies in the Suicide Narratives of Dante’s Inferno
Volume 6 (2019): Landscapes:
Sofia Fagiolo – The Pious Knight in Medieval Hagiography, c. 930–1058
Volume 5 (2018): Representations and Recollections of Empire:
Miranda Lee Elston – ‘Holy Things:’ Dürer’s Feast of the Rosary in the Rudolfine Court
Volume 4 (2017): Influence and Appropriation:
Jocelyn Hargrave – Aphra Behn: Cultural Translator and Editorial Intermediary
Volume 3 (2016): Words, Signs, and Feelings:
Lisa Tagliaferri – ‘A Gentlewoman of the Courte’: Introducing and Translating the Court Lady
Matthew Firth – Allegories of Sight: Blinding and Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England
Volume 2 (2015): Transitions, Fractures, and Fragments:
Richard Firth-Godbehere – For ‘Physitians of the Soule’: The roles of ‘flight’ and ‘hatred of abomination’ in Thomas Wright’s The Passions of the Minde in Generall
Volume 1 (2014): Emotions in History:
Andrea Brady – The Physics of Melting in Early Modern Love Poetry
David Thorley – The Melancholy of Henry More
The Ceræ committee reserves the right not to award a prize in any given year.
Featured Image: The knighting of Pyrrhus, Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Roman de Troie, BNF Fr. 782, fol. 161r), c. 1340-1350.
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