Dr Becca Grose

Research Fellow in Ancient History

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 1796

Email

rcg20@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

S13

Location

Swallowgate

 

Research areas

Social and cultural historian of Late Antiquity, and the early Middle Ages. Research fellow on Land and Loyalty: The Politics of Land in the Later Roman World (4th-6th c.)  (PIs Professor Carlos Machado and Professor Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner).

My PhD thesis studied how relationships were described on tombstones from IV-VII century Gaul, and how far the end of the Roman empire impacted family, gender and social values. My work since has focused on the mechanics by which relationships were negotiated at the end of the Roman world.

My work for the Land & Loyalty project investigates how changing political processes of land distribution at the end of the Roman Empire shaped and were shaped by the disparate family and gender structures found across the late Roman world. In addition, I am currently engaged in collaborative projects that explore i) dissolving family ties in the late antique and early-medieval period, and ii) how and why different late antique societies understood the relationship between sex and education so differently, and how these ideas impacted the treatment of humans and their bodies.  

Selected publications

• Some preliminary evidence from the Letters of Avitus of Vienne on women and gender in the Burgundian hegemony

  Grose, B., 29 Dec 2025, Women in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages: studies from Western Europe and North Africa. Fournier, E. & Kahlos, M. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, (Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages; vol. 44).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Connected clerics in late antiquity

  Leonard, V., Villazala, D. N., Hicklin, A. & Grose, B., 1 Jan 2024, Online : Royal Holloway, University of London.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Open access

  Conspicuous absences in late antique Gallic funerary texts, VI-VII centuries CE: errors, erasures, or inscribing uncertainty?

  Grose, B., 30 Jun 2024, Erasure in late antiquity. Boers, K., Grose, B., Usherwood, R. & Walker, G. (eds.). Budapest: Trivent, p. 237-277 41 p. (Sylloge - Library of late antique and Byzantine studies).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Erasure in late antiquity

  Boers, K. (Editor), Grose, B. (Editor), Usherwood, R. L. F. (Editor) & Walker, G. (Editor), 30 Jun 2024, Budapest: Trivent. 293 p. (Sylloge - Library of late antique and Byzantine studies)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  Introduction

  Boers, K., Grose, B., Usherwood, R. L. F. & Walker, G., 30 Jun 2024, Erasure in late antiquity. Boers, K., Grose, B., Usherwood, R. & Walker, G. (eds.). Budapest: Trivent, p. 9-23 15 p. (Sylloge - Library of late antique and Byzantine studies).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Avitus, Gundobad, and social networks: downscaling the special relationship

  Grose, B., 2023, Scale and the study of late antiquity : collected essays from the 14th Meeting of Shifting Frontiers. Sessa, K. & Uhalde, K. (eds.). Bari: Edipuglia, p. 169-182 14 p. (Munera: Studi storici sulla tarda antichità; vol. 53).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Inscribing moral communities in late-antique Burgundy: old values, multivalent meanings, and new avenues of research

  Grose, B., 9 Sept 2023, Death and the societies of late antiquity: new methods, new questions?. Granier, G., Boyer, C. & Anstett, É. (eds.). Aix-en-Provence: Presses universitaires de Provence, p. 59-70 12 p. (Archéologies méditerranéennes).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Rome's status in late antiquity - (M.R.) Salzman The Falls of Rome. Crises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity

  Grose, B., 1 Apr 2023, In: The Classical Review. 73, 1, p. 255-257

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Burgundians

  Grose, B., 15 Jun 2022, The encyclopedia of ancient history. Bagnall, R. S. (ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Ryan H. Wilkinson, The Last Horizons of Roman Gaul: Communication, Coin Circulation, and the Limits of the Second Burgundian Kingdom: A prosopographical, numismatic, and ceramic synthesis (ca. 395-550 CE). British Archaeological Reports, International Series no. 3006. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020

  Grose, B., 1 Jan 2021, In: Reading Medieval Studies. XLVII, p. 199-200 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

 

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