Edith Gillian Clark is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the
University of Bristol
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. She retired from the University of Bristol in 2010. Clark has made a significant contribution to the history, literature, and religion of
late antiquity
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.
She is currently working on a commentary of
Augustine of Hippo's ''
City of God'', under contract with
Oxford University Press
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. She is a
Fellow of the British Academy and an editor for the ''Translated Texts for Historians'' ''300–800'' series, published by
Liverpool University Press
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. She is editor of the monograph series ''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.
Clark studied
Greek
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and
Latin
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language and literature, ancient history, and philosophy at
Somerville College, Oxford. She received her
Master of Arts
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and
Doctor of Philosophy
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degrees from the
University of Oxford
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. She has taught at the universities of Glasgow, St Andrews, Manchester, Liverpool and Bristol.
Selected bibliography
*''
Monica: An Ordinary Saint'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)
*''Being Christian in Late Antiquity: A Festschrift for Gillian Clark'', edited by
Carol Harrison
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, 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
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'', 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
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20th-century British historians
21st-century British historians
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
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Women classical scholars
21st-century British women writers
20th-century British women writers