Dr Becca Grose

Dr Becca Grose

Research Fellow in Ancient History

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  (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. A book is under contract, and I am also involved in a collaborative project investigating the interaction between different gendered narrative strategies in Merovingian literature. 

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

  • Open access
    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, p. 127-150 (Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages; vol. 44).

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

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

    Research output: Other contribution

  • Open access
    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
    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
    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

  • 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
    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

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

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

  • 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

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

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