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
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2012
Subjects
Classics, Religion

Summary

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.

Complete list of publications

Current post

University of Bristol Professor Emerita

University of Bristol Senior Research Fellow

Publications

Monica: An Ordinary Saint

Gillian Clark - Published in 2015 by Oxford University Press

Body and Gender, Soul and Reason in Late Antiquity

Gillian Clark - Published in 2011 by Routledge

Late Antiquity: a Very Short Introduction

Gillian Clark - Published in 2011 by Oxford University Press

Augustine: Confessions

Gillian Clark - Published in 2005 by Bristol Phoenix Press

Christianity and Roman Society

Gillian Clark - Published in 2004 by Cambridge University Press

Porphyry: On Abstinence from Killing Animals

Gillian Clark - Published in 2000 by Bloomsbury Academic

Augustine: Confessions 1-4

Gillian Clark - Published in 1995 by Cambridge University Press

Women in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Lifestyles

Gillian Clark - Published in 1993 by Oxford University Press

Women in the Ancient World

Gillian Clark - Published in 1989 by Oxford University Press

Iamblichus: On the Pythagorean Life

Gillian Clark - Published in 1989 by Liverpool University Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Eleanor Dickey FBA

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

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Revd Professor David Brown FBA

Theology and the Arts, Philosophical Theology, Christian Doctrine

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Professor Catherine Morgan FBA

Classical archaeology of the Mediterranean, the Adriatic and the Black Sea; Greek political organisation; Greek religion; island studies; Archaic poetry

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