Valerie Irene Jane Flint (5 July 1936 – 7 January 2009) was a British scholar and historian, specialising in medieval intellectual and cultural history.
Upon winning a scholarship, she matriculated to Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford.
thesis was on "The life and works of Honorius Augustodunensis with special reference to chronology and sources," and was finished in 1969.
While working at the Institute for Advanced Study (also in Princeton), Flint completed her most extended and important[2] publication, The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe.
[2] In 1999, while at Princeton as a Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Flint discovered that she was suffering from a virulent form of cancer.