Professor Gillian Clark FBA
- 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.
Current post
University of Bristol Professor Emerita
University of Bristol Senior Research Fellow
Publications
Late Antiquity: a Very Short Introduction
Gillian Clark - Published in 2011 by Oxford University Press
Porphyry: On Abstinence from Killing Animals
Gillian Clark - Published in 2000 by Bloomsbury Academic
Women in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Lifestyles
Gillian Clark - Published in 1993 by Oxford University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Robert Fowler FBA
Greek historiography and mythography; Greek epic poetry; Greek lyric poetry; History of Classical Scholarship
Professor Samuel Lieu FBA
History of religions, especially of Manichaeism and Christianity, in Central Asia and China; history of Late Roman and Early Byzantine Near East; history of the Silk Road
