Faculty Author Q&A: Thomas D. Conlan on "Kinkakuji and Kitayama"

The Academy of Athens, Greece's national academy of arts, science and letters, awarded Teresa Shawcross, Associate Professor of History and Hellenic Studies, its Lykourgeio Prize for her book Wisdom's House, Heaven's Gate: Athens and Jerusalem in the Middle Ages. The prize recognizes “an original, synthetic work” on “a subject relating to the history of the Greek nation from earliest antiquity to the contemporary era”. The plenary assembly of the Academicians commended Shawcross for "greatly advanc[ing] the study of the history and geography of our Mediterranean Sea, as well as the knowledge of the philosophy, theology, and manners of those dwelling around it.”

The original statement, written in Ancient Greek, reads: “ὅτι τῷ ἐξόχῳ αὐτῆς πονήματι Wisdom’s House, Heaven’s Gate: Athens and Jerusalem in the Middle Ages τὴν περί τὴν ἱστορίαν καὶ γεωγραφίαν τῆς καθ᾽ἡμᾶς μεσογείου θαλάσσης μελέτην, ἅμα δὲ καὶ τὴν περὶ τὴν θεολογίαν τά τε ἤθη τῶν περὶ αὐτὴν οἰκούντων γνῶσιν τὰ μέγιστα προάγει”.