Professor Lindy Grant
Postgraduate supervision
I offer options on Medieval Monasticism, Kingship and Queenship in Twelfth and Thirteenth Century France, and Architectural Patronage in France in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries on the MA (Res) offered by the GCMS, and supervise MA (Res) dissertations within these areas, and other areas of my research interests. I would be glad to supervise any research student with an interest in politics, religion and culture, especially architecture, within Capetian France and its neighbours in the High Middle Ages.
Teaching
I contribute to our Part 1 course on 'Landmarks in European History, 1066-1945', and teach a Part 1 Approaches course on The Letters of Abelard and Heloise. For Part 2, I teach a course 'Power and Culture in Capetian France, 987-1270', and for Part 3, a Special Subject course, 'From Louis the Fat to Louis the Saint: the Image of Kingship in Capetian France'. I am convenor for Undergraduate dissertations.
Research projects
My research interests range across politics, religion and culture in Capetian France and its neighbours in the 11th and 13th centuries, and my approach is essentially interdisciplinary. I am the author of Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis: Church and State in Early Medieval France, Longman's Medieval World Series, 1998, and Architecture and Society in Normandy, c.1120-c.1270, Yale University Press, 2005, and am now working on a biography of Blanche of Castile. Recent articles and papers have explored aspects of architectural patronage and the impact of ecclesiastical reform on the North French Church in the 12th century. I have a particular interest in questions of cultural identity, in patronage and the representation of power and rulership, and in the cultural impact of ecclesiastical reform.
Publications
- Grant, L. (2018) Qu'est-ce que l'architecture gothique? La perspective des mecenes. In: Timbert, A. , (eds.) Qu'est-ce que l'architecture gothique? Essais. Septentrion , Lille. pp. 129-143. ISBN: 9782757423653
- Grant, L. (2018) The queen and the abbots: Blanche of Castile. In: Bauduin, P. , Combalbert, G. , Dubois, A. , Garnier, B. , Maneuvrier, C. , (eds.) Sur les pas de Lanfranc, du Bec à Caen. Cahier des Annales de Normandie , 37. Presses Universitaire de Caen (37). , Caen. pp. 139-148. ISBN: 9782902239405
- Grant, L. (2018) The Castle of Castile: an image of power, or the power of an image. In: Collard, F. , Lachaud, F. , Scordia, L. , (eds.) Images, Pouvoirs et Normes: Exegese Visuelle de la fin du Moyen Age (XIIIe-XVe Siecle). POLEN - Pouvoirs, lettres, normes Classiques Garnier (8). , Paris. pp. 215-235. ISBN: 9782406067351 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-06737-5
- Grant, L. (2016) Introduction to this special edition on Reading Abbey: Reading Abbey intellectual and artistic culture and international context. Reading Medieval Studies , XLII pp. ix-xvi. ISSN: 0950-3129 (ISBN 9780704915541)
- Grant, L. (2016) Blanche of Castile, Queen of France. Yale University Press , London. pp 456. ISBN: 9780300219265
- Grant, L. (2015) Royal and aristocratic hospital patronage in Northern France in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. In: Clemens, L. , Dort, K. , Schumacher, F. , (eds.) Laienadel und Armenfursorge im Mittelalter. Trierer Historische Forshungen Kliomedia (71). , Trier. pp. 105-114. ISBN: 9783898901918
- Grant, L. (2014) The Coronation mantle and the Westminster sanctuary pavement. The Mediaeval Journal , 4 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN: 2033-5385 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.TMJ.1.103938
- Grant, L. (2011) Gold Bezants on the altar: coronation imagery in the 'Bibles Morlaisées'. In: Opacic, Z. and Timmerman, A. , (eds.) Image, Memory and Devotion: Liber Amicorum Paul Crossley. Studies in Gothic Art Brepols (SG2). , Turnhout, Belgium. pp. 55-60. ISBN: 9782503531687
- Grant, L. (2011) Saint Michel peseur d'ames sur les portails gothiques du Jugement denier vers 1200. In: Bouet, P. , Otranto , G. , Vauchez , A. , Vincent , C. , (eds.) Rappresentazioni Del Monte e dell'Arcangelo san Michele nella letterature e nelle arti. Edipuglia pp. 135-162. ISBN: 9788872286319
- Grant, L. (2011) Blanche of Castile and Normandy. In: Crouch, D. and Thompson, K. , (eds.) Normandy and its neighbours, 900-1250 : essays for David Bates. Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe Brepols (14). , Turnhout. pp. 117-131. ISBN: 9782503520629 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.TCNE-EB.3.5033
- Grant, L. (2010) Representing dynasty: the transept windows at Chartres Cathedral. In: Maxwell, R. , (eds.) Representing history, 900-1300: art, music, history. Penn State University Press , USA. pp. 109-114. ISBN: 9780271036366
- Grant, L. (2009) Les relations culturelles et artistiques entre le sud-ouest de la Normandie et le Maine autour de 1106. In: Gazeau, V. and Green, J. , (eds.) Tinchebray 1106-2006: actes du colloque de Tinchebray. Le Pays Bas-Normand , France.
- Grant, L. (2008) Aux origines du gothique normand. In: Aminjon, . and Berthelot, . , (eds.) Chefs d'oeuvre du Gothique en Normandie. 5 Continents , Ballainvilliers, France. pp. 27-35. ISBN: 9788874394593
- Grant, L. (2007) Les répercussions de 1204 sur l'architecture et la sculpture normande. In: Flambard-Héricher, . and Gazeau, . , (eds.) 1204: La Normandie entre Plantagenêts et Capétiens. CRAHM (Université de Caen) , Caen, France. pp. 389-400. ISBN: 9782902685356
- Grant, L. (2006) Review of 'The Norman frontier in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries' by D. Power. Reviews in History ISSN: 1749-8155
- Grant, L. (2006) Arnulf's mentor: Geoffrey of Leves, Bishop of Chartres. In: Bates, . , Crick, . , Hamilton, . , (eds.) Writing medieval biography, 750-1250 : essays in honour of Professor Frank Barlow. Boydell and Brewer , Woodbridge, UK. pp. 173-184. ISBN: 9781843832621