Lucy Grig

Lucy Grig in 2019

Lucy Grig is Professor of the History of Late Antiquity and a former Head of Classics (2019-2022) at the University of Edinburgh.[1][2]

Career

Grig was a lecturer at the University of Reading from 2000 to 2004, with a break during 2001 to 2002 to be a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome.[3] She is a member of the Governing Board of the International Late Antiquity Network, and previously a member of the committee for the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Grig is an editor for Late Antiquity for the Oxford Classical Dictionary.[1]

She was awarded a prestigious British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for the academic year 2016-17, in order to pursue the project 'Popular Culture and the End of Antiquity in Southern Gaul, c. 400-550'.[4]

In October 2017 she was part of the expert panel for Radio 4's In Our Time episode on Constantine and in November 2014 for the episode on Aesop.[5][6]

Publications

Books

• Grig, Lucy (2004), Making martyrs in late antiquity, Duckworth, ISBN 9780715632857
• Grig, Lucy (2024), Popular Culture and the End of Antiquity in Southern Gaul, c. 400-550, Cambridge, United Kimgdom, ISBN 9781108868792

Edited volumes

• Grig, Lucy; Kelly, Gavin (2012), Two Romes : Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity, Oxford studies in late antiquity, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0190241087
• Grig, Lucy (2017), Popular culture in the ancient world, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ISBN 978-1107074897

Articles and chapters

• 'Caesarius of Arles and the campaign against popular culture in late antiquity', Early Medieval Europe, 26 (1) 2018, pp. 61–81
• 'Life and death in Late Antiquity: Religious rituals and popular culture'. In: Lössl, J. and J. Nicholas, B. (eds.) A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018, pp. 455–473
• 'Cities in the ‘long’ Late Antiquity, 2000–2012 – a survey essay', Urban History, 40 (3) 2013, pp. 554 – 566
• 'Deconstructing the symbolic city: Jerome as guide to late antique Rome', Papers of the British School at Rome, 80 (2012) pp. 125–143
• 'Throwing parties for the poor: poverty and splendour in the late antique church'. In: Margaret Atkins, R. (ed.) Poverty in the Roman World. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 145–161
• 'Portraits, Pontiffs and the Christianization of Fourth-Century Rome', Papers of the British School at Rome, 72 (2004), pp. 203–230
• 'Torture and Truth in Late Antique Martyrology', Early Medieval Europe, 11 (2002), pp. 321–336

References

1. "Lucy Grig". Ed.ac.uk. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
2. Lucy Grig (16 July 2012). "Lucy Grig - Classics". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
3. Andrew., Wallace-Hadrill (2001). The British School at Rome : one hundred years. British School at Rome. London: British School at Rome. p. 223. ISBN 0904152359. OCLC 48572069.
4. "Dr Grig awarded British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship". www.ed.ac.uk. 13 June 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
5. "In Our Time, Constantine the Great". BBC. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
6. "In Our Time, Aesop". BBC. 20 November 2014. Retrieved 9 October 2017.

External links

• Staff profile page at University of Edinburgh
• Shoft interview via University of Edinburgh