# Valerie Flint > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Valerie_Flint > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Valerie_Flint.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Flint > Source revision: 1339851472 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) British scholar and historian (1936–2009) Valerie Flint Born Valerie Irene Jane Flint (1936-07-05)5 July 1936 Derby, England Died 7 January 2009(2009-01-07) (aged 72) Beverley, England Alma mater University of Oxford Known for Seminal contributions to medieval studies[1] Scientific career Fields Medieval intellectual history, cultural history Institutions Princeton University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford Doctoral advisor Beryl Smalley, Richard Southern, Richard Hunt **Valerie Irene Jane Flint** (5 July 1936 – 7 January 2009) was a British [scholar](/source/Scholar) and [historian](/source/Historian), specialising in medieval [intellectual](/source/Intellectual_history) and [cultural history](/source/Cultural_history). ## Biography ### Early life Flint was born in [Derby](/source/Derby), England. She was a pupil at the Rutland House School; and although her family was not Catholic, Flint was also educated by the Sisters of Mercy at their Doncaster convent school. Upon winning a scholarship, she matriculated to [Lady Margaret Hall](/source/Lady_Margaret_Hall) at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford).[2] Focusing on the 12th century, Flint studied for an [MPhil](/source/MPhil) under [Beryl Smalley](/source/Beryl_Smalley), [Richard Southern](/source/Richard_Southern), [Richard Hunt](/source/Richard_William_Hunt) and [Lorenzo Minio-Paluello](/source/Lorenzo_Minio-Paluello). ### Academic career Flint's D.Phil. thesis was on "The life and works of [Honorius Augustodunensis](/source/Honorius_Augustodunensis) with special reference to chronology and sources", and was finished in 1969. While finishing her thesis, Flint took up lecturing and she began to work at the [University of Auckland](/source/University_of_Auckland) in 1971.[1] In the late 1980s, Flint relocated to [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University) as a Fellow of the [Davis Center](/source/Davis_Center). 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*.[1] She held a chair at the [University of Hull](/source/University_of_Hull) from 1995 until 1999, when she retired. She also held [fellowships](/source/Fellow) with the [University of Canberra](/source/University_of_Canberra), [Clare Hall, Cambridge](/source/Clare_Hall%2C_Cambridge), the [University of Chicago](/source/University_of_Chicago), the [University of Minnesota](/source/University_of_Minnesota), [Trinity College, Cambridge](/source/Trinity_College%2C_Cambridge), and [All Souls College, Oxford](/source/All_Souls_College%2C_Oxford).[2] ### Later life and death In 1999, while at Princeton as a Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Flint discovered that she was suffering from a [virulent](/source/Virulent) form of [cancer](/source/Cancer).[2] When her treatment enabled her to, she returned to [Beverley](/source/Beverley) in the [East Riding of Yorkshire](/source/East_Riding_of_Yorkshire). She centred her subsequent studies on the [Hereford Mappa Mundi](/source/Hereford_Mappa_Mundi).[1] On 7 January 2009, Flint died at home in her library, aged 72. ## Personal life Flint never married, asserting that "marriage is for men". She was received into the [Catholic Church](/source/Catholic_Church) in the 1960.[2] ## Works - *Honorius Augustodunensis - Imago Mundi* (1982) - *Ideas in the Medieval West: texts and their contexts* (1988) - *[The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe](/source/The_Rise_of_Magic_in_Early_Medieval_Europe)* (1991) - *The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus* (1992) - *Honorius Augustodunensis* (Authors of the Middle Ages, 6) (1995) - *Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece and Rome* (1999) ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-guardian_obituary_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-guardian_obituary_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-guardian_obituary_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-guardian_obituary_1-3) Brett, Martin (26 February 2009). ["Valerie Flint"](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/feb/26/valerie-flint-obituary). *The Guardian*. Retrieved 5 June 2010. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-times_obituary_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-times_obituary_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-times_obituary_2-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-times_obituary_2-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-times_obituary_2-4) ["Professor Valerie Flint: historian"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100524151933/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5644116.ece). *The Times*. 3 February 2009. Archived from [the original](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5644116.ece) on 24 May 2010. Retrieved 5 June 2010. 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