Award PROSE Award

Fellow, British Academy (1992)

Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion (2004)

Corresponding Fellow, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (1994)

Leo Gershoy Award (2001)

Dr A.H. Heineken Prize (2008)

Benjamin Franklin Medal (2010)

Comenius Prize (2017)

Frans Banninck Cocq Medal (2012)

Wolfson Literary Award for History (1986)

MacArthur Fellow (1986)

American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 2006)

Rhodes Scholar (1959-1961)

American Philosophical Society (2003)

Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award (2004)

American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1985)

British Academy (Corresponding Fellow, 2006)

Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Chevalier, 2014)

Louis Gottschalk Prize (1980)

Charles C. Eldredge Prize (1990)

Prix Littéraire Etats-Unis/France (2000)

Sir John Templeton Award for Theological Promise (2008)

Herbert Baxter Adams Prize (2016)

Elizabeth Blair MacDougall Award (2016)

Louis Gottschalk Prize (2015)

John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize (2015)