Beam wins book prize

Dr. Sara Beam (history) has won the 2008 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society for Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France. The society, which awards three prizes annually for books in English, selected Beam’s work as the best book in the area of history/theology. The prize is named in honour of the long-time Yale professor and 20th-century church historian. Winners demonstrate quality and originality of research, methodological skill and/or innovation, development of fresh and stimulating interpretations and literary quality.