Edith Gillian Clark is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the

University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

. She retired from the University of Bristol in 2010. Clark has made a significant contribution to the history, literature, and religion of

late antiquity Late antiquity is the time of transition from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, generally spanning the 3rd–7th century in Europe and adjacent areas bordering the Mediterranean Basin. The popularization of this periodization in English ha ...

. She is currently working on a commentary of Augustine of Hippo's '' City of God'', under contract with

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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

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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

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and

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language and literature, ancient history, and philosophy at Somerville College, Oxford. She received her

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and

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degrees from the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. 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

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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 Miriam Tamara Griffin (née Dressler; 6 June 1935 – 16 May 2018) was an American classical scholar and tutor of ancient history at Somerville College at the University of Oxford from 1967 to 2002. She was a scholar of Roman history and ancien ...

'', 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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