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 Christopher Pelling
Greek and Latin historiography and biography, especially the literary criticism of prose texts, in particular Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, and Tacitus
Professor Michael Silk
Ancient Greek poetry and drama; the classical tradition, especially in English poetry and German thought; Nietzsche; poetics and poetic language; theories of literature
Professor Dame Mary Beard
The history, literature and culture of the classical world, and its impact on later periods
Professor Terence Irwin
Ancient Philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism. Kant. Moral philosophy, especially its history
