ASIMS is pleased to announce that the 2018 winner of the Terry Barry Prize for Best Graduate Paper in Irish Medieval Studies is Jesse Harrington for his paper for his paper “Betha Adomnáin as homily on Job.” He presented this talk at the 21st Biennial Symposium of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society, which was held at the University of Bristol in July 2018.

Dr. Harrington has just finished his Ph.D. in Medieval History (Corpus Christi College) at the University of Cambridge, under the primary direction of Dr. Carl Watkins and Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; his dissertation title is “Vengeance and saintly cursing in the saints’ Lives of England and Ireland, c.1060–1215,” a work which was awarded the Griffiths Prize in Roman Studies for its examination of aspects of classical reception in the High Middle Ages. As its main subject matter, “Vengeance and saintly cursing” considered the theology and narrative representation of malediction and divine retribution in the hagiographical writings of the English Benedictines, of the English Cistercians, and of the Irish monastic communities (in particular Armagh, Ferns, Lorrha, Clonmacnoise, and Devenish) during the long twelfth century. Dr. Harrington also earned his M.A. degree from Corpus Christi College/Faculty of History at Cambridge, and his B.A. degree in History and Economics from University College Cork.