Edith Gillian ClarkFBA is a British historian, who is Professor Emerita of Ancient History at the University of Bristol.[2] She retired from the University of Bristol in 2010. Clark is known for her work on the history, literature, and religion of late antiquity.
Clark is currently working on a commentary of Augustine of Hippo's City of God, under contract with Oxford University Press. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and an editor for the Translated Texts for Historians300–800 series, published by Liverpool University Press.[4] 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.[5]
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)
