The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) is pleased to announce that Professor Ulrich L. Lehner, a 2010 Fellow of the NDIAS, has been awarded the 2011 John Gilmary Shea Prize for his book, Enlightened Monks: The German Benedictines, 1740-1803, published by Oxford University Press (2011). The Shea Prize is awarded annually by the American Catholic Historical Association for “the most original and distinguished contribution to knowledge of the history of the Catholic Church.” Professor Lehner’s book, described as “engagingly written, deeply researched, and seriously engaged with current research,” was recognized by the awards committee for demonstrating “in surprising new ways how eighteenth-century Benedictines of the Catholic Enlightenment engaged with all branches of contemporary academic study while simultaneously accommodating the monastic life to modernizing trends in European society.” The formal announcement by the Chairman of the Committee on the John Gilmary Shea Prize 2011 is available by clicking here. A brief biography of Professor Lehner is available on the NDIAS Web site by clicking here.
