My essay, 'Reassessing Documentary Culture in Monastic Communities: The Case of a Largescale Project of Manuscript Production at Burton Abbey', will be published in the next volume of Thirteenth Century England.
Marie Tranchant, PhD candidate
13 April 2026
Pipe Roll Society prize for PhD candidate
Third-year doctoral student in the Department of History has been awarded inaugural essay prize.
Marie Tranchant, supervised by Professor Julia Crick has won an essay prize awarded by the Pipe Roll Society in memory of the pioneering archival and financial historian, Mabel Mills (1882-1967).
As part of her research, Marie is working on cotton manuscripts at the British Library. Marie's essay will be published in the next volume of Thirteenth Century England this year.
Founded in 1883, the Pipe Roll Society publishes editions of the pipe rolls of the Exchequer and of related medieval documents. The prize will be a biannual bursary awarded upon original research on governmental and other records, broadly defined, of the long thirteenth century, i.e. c.1180-c.1320. The prize recognises excellence in research related to medieval English administrative or financial history, reflecting the focus of Mabel Mills' own pioneering work on 13th-century exchequer records, shrieval accountability, and the "rolls behind rolls".