Henry Bainton's book shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize!

Congratulations to CML researcher Henry Bainton (SDU), whose book, History and the Written Word, has been shortlisted for theRoyal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize! 

Drawing on the perspectives of modern and medieval narratology, medieval multilingualism, and cultural memory, History and the Written Word argues that members of an administrative elite demonstrated their mastery of the rules of literate political behavior by producing and consuming history-writing and its documents.
 
Learn more about History and the Written Word and the prize.