Congratulations to Pippa Salonius and her co-editor, Mike Bintley, whose collection, Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages: Comparative Contexts, has been awarded the 2024 Best Book in Medieval Art prize by the Association of Friends of the Center for Early Medieval Studies. The judges concluded:

This profoundly researched, well written, and clearly composed book has been deemed outstanding for its stimulating contribution to a nuanced and profound understanding of the nexus between nature and human creativity as expressed through various media in the visual arts and literature as well as theology and cosmology. Although mainly focusing on the European continent, it also comprises analyses of Maori and Islamic cultures for comparison and thereby embraces a ‘global’ approach to its common arboreal focus.

The book is now available in harcover and ebook formats through Boydell & Brewer.