Professor Gillian Clark FBA
The social & intellectual history of late antiquity, & early Christian (patristic) studies, in the Mediterranean world of the third to the seventh century
About this Fellow
Gillian Clark is Professor Emerita (since 2010) of Ancient History, University of Bristol. She is an alumna of Somerville College, Oxford, where she read 'Greats' (Greek and Latin language and literature, ancient history, and philosophy). Her MA and D.Phil. are also from Oxford. She taught for the universities of Glasgow, St Andrews, and Manchester before her appointment to Liverpool and then to Bristol. Her research field is known to classicists as late antiquity and to theologians as early Christian studies or as patristics. She works on social and intellectual history, with a special interest in the lives of women. Her continuing project is a commentary on Augustine, City of God. She co-edits, with Andrew Louth FBA, the monogtaph series Oxford Early Christian Texts / Studies (OUP), and she is a General Editor of the series Translated Texts for Historians 300-800 (Liverpool University Press), which provides scholarly annotated translations from the languages of the Roman empire and its neighbours and successors.
Appointments
Current post
- Professor Emerita and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol
Past Appointments
- Professor Emerita and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol, 2012
British Academy Appointments
- Member of Council, 2014 - 2017
Publications
Body and Gender, Soul and Reason in Late Antiquity 2011
Christianity and Roman Society 2004
Porphyry: On Abstinence from Killing Animals 2000
Augustine: Confessions 1-4 1995
Women in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Lifestyles 1993
Other Classical Antiquity Fellows
Professor John Scheid
Religion & institutions of ancient Rome, between the IIId c. BC & the IIId c.AD (Epigraphy, history & archaeology).
Professor Cyprian Broodbank
Comparative world archaeology and deep history; the archaeology of the Mediterranean; Aegean prehistory; the archaeology of islands; the emergence of connectivity, particularly maritime; landscape archaeology
Professor Richard Hunter
Greek and Latin literature, particularly of the Hellenistic and imperial periods, and the ancient reception and criticism of classical texts
Professor Eleanor Dickey
Greek and Latin languages and literature; ancient scholarship; ancient bilingualism and second-language learning; politeness and forms of address in Latin and Greek; sociolinguistics of ancient languages
