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R. H. Gapper Book Prize awarded to Sylvia Huot
The Society for French Studies is delighted to announce the award of the fifth annual R. H. Gapper Book Prize to Sylvia Huot, for her book Madness in Medieval French Literature: Identities Lost and Found, published by Oxford University Press. In her book, Sylvia Huot explores medieval attitudes to madness in all their diversity. She shows how different literary genres present marked contrasts in their presentation and valuation of madness, and, through an engagement with contemporary theory, she gives a fascinating account of what madness can tell us about the construction of identity. Sylvia Huot is Reader in Medieval French Literature in the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. She is the author of many influential books on medieval literature. The award,
which is for the best book published by a scholar working in Britain
or Ireland in French studies in 2003, was made by the Editors of
French Studies, Professor Michael Freeman, Professor
Alison Finch and Professor Patrick O'Donovan, together with Mr Richard
Gapper, representing the R. H. Gapper Charitable Trust. Sylvia Huot's
book was one of a number of very impressive works published in 2003.
The judges' choice was made in the light of the book's originality
and its likely impact on wider critical debate in medieval studies.
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