HMC Fellow one of only two Oxford contributors to prize-winning book

HMC Emeritus Fellow Professor Lesley Smith was one of only two Oxford-based contributors to this year’s winner of the John Tedeschi Prize for Reference. 

The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation, edited by Jennifer Powell McNutt and Herman J Selderhuis was announced as the winner of the prestigious annual prize on 31 October by the Sixteenth Century Society. The prize recognizes a published work or piece of digital scholarship that is intended primarily for consultation such as a dictionary, encyclopaedia or a comprehensive examination of the scholarship on a particular topic related to Early Modern Studies. 

Professor Smith’s essay provides the hinge between the Middle Ages and the Reformation through a discussion of the biblical scholar Nicholas of Lyra, a subject she has explored extensively throughout her career, including in a book she co-edited: Nicholas of Lyra: The Senses of Scripture (Brill, 2000).