Lindy M. Grant FSA (born 1952) is professor emerita of medieval history at the University of Reading,[1] an honorary research fellow of the Courtauld Institute of Art,[2] and a former president of the British Archaeological Association.
[5] Following completion of her post graduate studies, Dr Grant remained at the Courtauld and worked for many years in the Conway Library as mediaeval curator.
[2] During her career, Grant has appeared in a number of televised documentaries including two episodes of A Time Team Special on ‘Dover Castle’ (2009) and ‘The Secrets of Westminster Abbey’ in 2010.
Grant suggests that Suger was not an original thinker, but rather a successful administrator and consummate politician whose theological views expressed a keen desire for orthodoxy’.
[15].Grant is also involved with the Battle Conference for Anglo-Norman studies[16] and is a Trustee of the British Academy Angevin Acta project.