Edith Gillian Clark is a British historian, who is Professor Emerita of Ancient History at the

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. She retired from the University of Bristol in 2010. Clark is known for her work on the history, literature, and religion of

late antiquity Late antiquity marks the period that comes after the end of classical antiquity and stretches into the onset of the Early Middle Ages. Late antiquity as a period was popularized by Peter Brown (historian), Peter Brown in 1971, and this periodiza ...

Education and career

Clark studied

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and

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language and literature, ancient history, and philosophy at

Somerville College, Oxford Somerville College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. It began admitting men in 1994. The colle ...

. She received her

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and

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degrees from the

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. She has taught at the universities of Glasgow, St Andrews, Manchester, Liverpool and Bristol. Clark is currently working on a commentary of

Augustine of Hippo Augustine of Hippo ( , ; ; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. His writings deeply influenced the development of Western philosop ...

's '' City of God'', under contract with

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. She is a

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and an editor for the ''Translated Texts for Historians'' ''300–800'' series, published by

Liverpool University Press Liverpool University Press (LUP), founded in 1899, is the third oldest university press in England after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. As the press of the University of Liverpool, it specialises in modern languages, lit ...

. She is editor of the series ''Oxford Early Christian Studies'' and ''Oxford Early Christian Texts'', published by Oxford University Press. An event, "Christianity and Roman Society: A Colloquium for Professor Gillian Clark", was held in her honour in 2011 at the University of Bristol and a ''Festschrift'' was published in 2014 as a result.

Selected bibliography

*''Commentary on Augustine City of God, Books 6-10'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023) *''Commentary on Augustine City of God, Books 1-5'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021) *'' Monica: An Ordinary Saint'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) *''Being Christian in Late Antiquity: A Festschrift for Gillian Clark'', edited by Carol Harrison, Caroline Humfress, and Isabella Sandwell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) * ''On Abstinence from Killing Animals'' (London: Bloomsbury, 2014) *''Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) *''Body and Gender, Soul and Reason in Late Antiquity'' (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011) * ''Christianity and Roman Society'' (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004) * ''Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World: Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin'', edited by Gillian Clark and Tessa Rajak (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) *''Confessions. Books I–IV'' (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995) *''Augustine: The Confessions'' (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993) * ''Women in the Ancient World'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Gillian (historian) Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century British historians 20th-century British women writers 21st-century British historians 21st-century British women writers Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford British classical scholars British historians of religion British women historians Classical scholars of the University of Bristol Fellows of the British Academy Historians of antiquity Historians of Christianity British women classical scholars