15 August 2020
RRR and its Douglas Murray Prize adjudication panel is pleased, in accord with the prize-guidelines, to announce the joint winners of the prize (£500 each) for RRR 21 (2019):
They are MANFRED SVENSSON, University of the Andes, Santiago, Chile, for his article in RRR 21, no. 3 (2019): 218‒238, entitled: Aristotelian Practical Philosophy from Melanchthon to Eisenhart: Protestant Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics 1529‒1683
and
ANDREW SPICER, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, for his article in RRR 21, no. 2 (2019): 64‒88, entitled: Religious Representation in Comenius’s Orbis sensualium pictus (1658).
The award panel for this volume consisted of Torrance Kirby (Montreal), David Manning (Leicester) and Ian Hazlett (Glasgow). Some of their comments were:
On Svensson: Svensson succeeds in demonstrating the vitality of the tradition of Protestant commentary on Aristotle and the broad extent of its influence … Pushing beyond the usual interest in Melanchthon is fully justified and makes for a rewarding study.
On Spicer: This is a rich and intriguing study making effective use of a variety of methods and genres to advance its cause … the article is beautifully, and appropriately, illustrated.
