The Canadian Society of Medievalists has selected Siân Echard to receive the 2009 Margaret Wade Labarge Prize for her book, Printing the Middle Ages. The prize committee wrote:
Siân Echard has written an admirable work of mature scholarship. Her erudition shines through on every page, but the book is nonetheless very accessible and will reach a broad audience. Echard is especially clear on the twisted partisan and commercial routes by which medieval texts reached us.
Last year's Labarge Prize went to Penn Press author Fiona Griffiths.
