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On 5 April 2018, Susanne de Jong, a former student-assistant of the "Cities of Readers" project (in 2015-2016), has received the VNK*) prize for her Research Master thesis "Read some good devout, Dutch books". Needless to say that we are all very proud of Susanne.The report written by the jury underlines the quality of Susanne's thesis and its innovative approach, especially the study of readers and consumers of books in the late Middle Ages, most notably "non professional" lay readers" of religious texts, and the demystification of the often supposed monopoly of the Modern Devout in the spreading of religious texts and knowledge among the laity in the Low Countries.*) Vereniging voor Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis/Association for Dutch Church History