2001 Lectures / published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

British Academy.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 0068-1202 117.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 117

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Speeches, addresses, etc., English.

Great Britain--Civilization.

Great Britain.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xii, 543 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Volume 117 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 13 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2001.

Contents:

The origins of Chinese mountain painting: evidence from archaeology / Jessica Rawson

Prosperity and power in the age of Bede and Beowulf / J.R. Maddicott

How northern was the northern master at Assisi? / Paul Binski

After Glyn Dŵr: an age of reconciliation? / Ralph A. Griffiths

A world elsewhere: Shakespeare's sense of an exit / Richard Wilson

The life of learning / Keith Thomas

A third concept of liberty / Quentin Skinner

Poetry against empire: Milton to Shelley / Karen O'Brien

Two enlightenments: a contrast in social ethics / Gertrude Himmelfarb

The origins of a national monarchy: tradition and innovation in the cult of the House of Savoy during the risorgimento / Adrian Lyttelton

The disease of language and the language of disease / James W. Fernandez

Gertrude Stein's differential syntax / Marjorie Perloff

"I see men as trees suffering": the vision of Keith Douglas / Tim Kendall

Reason or mumbo jumbo: the common law's approach to property / J.W. Harris

Welfare-to-work: which policies work and why? / Richard Blundell

Elementary, my dear Watson, the clue is in the genes ... or is it? / Annette Karmiloff-Smith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0197262791

9780197262795

OCLC:

51544993