Lucy Grig is Professor of the History of Late Antiquity and a former Head of

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(2019-2022) at the

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Career

Grig was a lecturer at the

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from 2000 to 2004, with a break during 2001 to 2002 to be a Rome Scholar at the

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. She is a member of the Governing Board of the International Late Antiquity Network, and previously a member of the committee for the

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. Grig is an editor for Late Antiquity for the

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. She was awarded a prestigious

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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'. In October 2017 she was part of the expert panel for Radio 4's ''

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'' episode on

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and in November 2014 for the episode on

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Publications

Books

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Edited volumes

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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', ''

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'', 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

External links

Staff profile page
at University of Edinburgh
Shoft interview
via University of Edinburgh {{DEFAULTSORT:Grig, Lucy Living people British women historians Academics of the University of Edinburgh Year of birth missing (living people)