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Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 111

2000 Lectures and Memoirs

Published 2001
for the British Academy by Oxbow Books

234 × 156 mm; 726 pages; 12 line figures, 30 half-tone figures
hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-726259-7
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CONTENTS

 

2000 Lectures

  • M F Burnyeat, Plato  [Master-Mind Lecture]
  • David W Phillipson, Aksum: An African Civilisation in its World Contexts  [Reckitt Lecture]
  • Michael Lapidge, Beowulf and Perception  [Gollancz Lecture]
  • Graham Bradshaw, Shakespeare’s Peculiarity  [1997 Shakespeare Lecture]
  • Peter Holland, Beginning in the Middle  [Shakespeare Lecture]
  • Margaret Kean, Waiting for God: John Milton’s Poems of 1671  [Chatterton Lecture]
  • Malcolm Yapp, The Legend of the Great Game  [Kedourie Lecture]
  • Shula Marks, White Masculinity: Jan Smuts, Race and the South African War  [Raleigh Lecture]
  • Helen Vendler, Wallace Stevens: Hypotheses and Contradictions  [Warton Lecture]
  • John Sutton, Rich Trades, Scarce Capabilities: Industrial Development Revisited  [Keynes Lecture, with discussion]
  • The Right Honourable the Lord Irvine of Lairg, The Law: an Engine for Trade  [Thank-Offering to Britain Lecture]
  • Dan Sperber, Conceptual Tools for a Natural Science of Society and Culture  [1999 Radcliffe-Brown Lecture]    (summary)
  • Amartya Sen, Other People  [British Academy Lecture]

All the lectures in this volume have been refereed.

 

Memoirs

  • Extended obituaries of 17 Fellows of the Academy

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