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
Gillian Clark, 2011 RoutledgeLate Antiquity: a Very Short Introduction
Gillian Clark, 2011 Oxford University PressAugustine: Confessions
Gillian Clark, 2005 Bristol Phoenix PressChristianity and Roman Society
Gillian Clark, 2004 Cambridge University PressPorphyry: On Abstinence from Killing Animals
Gillian Clark, 2000 Bloomsbury AcademicAugustine: Confessions 1-4
Gillian Clark, 1995 Cambridge University PressWomen in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Lifestyles
Gillian Clark, 1993 Oxford University PressWomen in the Ancient World
Gillian Clark, 1989 Oxford University PressIamblichus: On the Pythagorean Life
Gillian Clark, 1989 Liverpool University PressOther Classical Antiquity Fellows
Professor Robin Osborne
Classics and Ancient History History Art and Archaeology of Greece and the Greek World History of Greece and the Greek World Southern Europe Greece
Professor Nicholas Purcell
Roman social, economic and cultural history, combining the evidence of inscriptions, literary texts, and archaeology; the place of ancient history in the long-term history of the Mediterranean basin and its adjoining regions.
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
