Stuart Clark works on the intellectual and cultural history of Europe in the early modern period. He has been a lecturer in the History Department since 1967, graduating at Swansea in 1964 and receiving his PhD from Cambridge University in 1971. He has been a Professor since 1998 and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2000.

Professor Clark retires from Swansea in June 2008, and will be teaching at Princeton University in the academic year 2008-09.

Current research

Professor Clark is currently working on a study of the visual representation of St Anthony in the pre-modern period. In October 2008, he will be giving the 44th annual Erasmus Lecture at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Toronto University, on 'The Temptations of St. Anthony and the Art of Discernment'.

Principal publications

Books

• Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
• (with W. Monter & B. Ankerloo) The Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Vol 4: The Period of the Witch Trials (London: Athlone/Continuum, 2002)
• (ed.), Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture (London: Macmillan/Palgrave, 2001)
• (ed.), The Annales School: Critical Assessments, 4 vols. (London: Routledge, 1999)
• Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
  

Book-chapters and journal articles

• 'Magic and Witchcraft', in A. Molho, D. R. Curto & N. Koniordos, eds., Finding Europe: Discourses on Margins, Communities, Images ca. 13th-18th Centuries (New York & Oxford: Bergahn Books, 2007), 115-130
• 'Songes diaboliques et paradoxes visuel', in F. Lavocat, P. Kapitaniak, & M. Closson, eds., Fictions du diable: Démonologie et littérature de saint Augustin à Léo Taxil (Geneva: Droz, 2007), 267-296
• 'Satanic Libraries: Marsh's Witchcraft Books', in M. McCarthy & A. Simmons, eds., The Making of Marsh's Library: Learning, Politics and Religion in Ireland, 1650-1750  (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004), 99-116
• 'The Reformation of the Eyes: Apparitions and Optics in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe', Journal of Religious History, 27(2003), 143-160
• 'Demons, Natural Magic, and the Virtually Real: Visual Paradox in Early Modern Europe', in G. B. Williams & C. D. Gunnoe (eds.), Paracelsian Moments: Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2002), 223-245

Principal research awards, fellowships, and prizes

• Stewart Fellow in the Humanities Council and the History Department, Princeton University, Fall Semester (2004)
• Douglas Southall Freeman Professor of History, University of Richmond, Virginia, Spring Semester (2003)
• Lilly Fellow, National Humanities Centre, North Carolina (1999-2000)
• British Academy Reader (1998-2000)
• Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Centre, Bellagio, Italy (June 1999)
• Gladstone History Prize, Royal Historical Society (1997)
• Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton (1988-1989)