Lucy Grig

Lucy Grig is Professor of the History of Late Antiquity and a former Head of Classics at the University of Edinburgh.

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. 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.
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'.
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.

'Caesarius of Arles and the campaign against popular culture in late antiquity', Early Medieval Europe, 26 2018, pp. 61–81
'Life and death in Late Antiquity: Religious rituals and popular culture'. In: Lössl, J. and J. Nicholas, B. 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 2013, pp. 554 – 566
'Deconstructing the symbolic city: Jerome as guide to late antique Rome', Papers of the British School at Rome, 80 pp. 125–143
'Throwing parties for the poor: poverty and splendour in the late antique church'. In: Margaret Atkins, R. 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, pp. 203–230
'Torture and Truth in Late Antique Martyrology', Early Medieval Europe, 11, pp. 321–336