We are happy to announce the winners of the 2005 Early English Books Online/ EEBO-TCP Undergraduate Essay Competition. The papers submitted all offered impressive evidence of the exciting uses students can find for primary texts, and in many cases they also illustrate the noteworthy contributions that undergraduates can make to the field of early modern studies.

We are very glad to have had a role in the work these winners have accomplished, and we are very proud of the scholarship these students have exhibited in their use of texts from EEBO. We would also like to invite you to learn more about their work by sharing the papers that the students provided.

To view these papers, please click on the paper titles listed below.

Grand Prize: Courtney Peacock – Brigham Young University “A New Israel: The Tetragrammaton and English Protestantism

First Prize: Stefania Crowther – University of Warwick Never Was King So Like to God Before:” Stella Meridiana and the Restoration Panegyric

Second Prize: Michael Sechler – University of Pittsburgh Old Words, New Pages: Milton, Bracton, and the “Century of Revolution"

Honorable Mention: Edward Esborn – Johns Hopkins University Apprenticeship and Popular Literature in Seventeenth Century London

Honorable Mention: Emma Easy – University of Warwick Mass Politics and Tory Anxieties: Thomas Durfey’s The Royalist

Scholars from a variety of fields ranked the entries and distributed awards for the contest including Ian Archer (Professor of History, University of Oxford), Katrien Daemen-de Gelder (Professor of English, University of Ghent), Arthur Kinney (Professor of English, University of Massachusetts), Hillary Nunn (Professor of English, University of Akron), and Newton Key (Professor of History, Eastern Illinois University).