| The texts of 17 lectures delivered to the British Academy in 2001. Includes the inaugural Isaiah Berlin Lecture and the inaugural Elsley Zeitlyn Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Culture.
All the lectures in this volume have been refereed. | CONTENTS - Notes on Lecturers
- Jessica Rawson, The Origins of Chinese Mountain Painting: Evidence from Archaeology [Elsley Zeitlyn Lecture]
- J R Maddicott, Prosperity and Power in the Age of Bede and Beowulf [Raleigh Lecture]
- Paul Binski, How Northern was the Northern Master at Assisi? [Aspects of Art Lecture] (summary)
- Ralph Griffiths, After Glyn Dwr: An Age of Reconciliation? [Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture]
- Richard Wilson, A World Elsewhere: Shakespeare’s Sense of an Exit [Shakespeare Lecture]
- Keith Thomas, The Life of Learning [British Academy Lecture]
- Quentin Skinner, A Third Concept of Liberty [Isaiah Berlin Lecture]
- Karen O’Brien, Poetry against Empire: Milton to Shelley [Warton Lecture]
- Gertrude Himmelfarb, Two Enlightenments: A Contrast in Social Ethics [Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture]
- Adrian Lyttelton, The Origins of a National Monarchy: Tradition and Innovation in the Cult of the House of Savoy during the Risorgimento [Italian Lecture]
- James W Fernandez, The Disease of Language and the Language of Disease [Radcliffe-Brown Lecture]
- Marjorie Perloff, Gertrude Stein’s Differential Syntax [Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture]
- Tim Kendall, ‘I see men as trees suffering’: The Vision of Keith Douglas [Chatterton Lecture]
- J W Harris, Reason or Mumbo Jumbo: The Common Law’s Approach to Property [Maccabaean Lecture] (summary)
- Richard Blundell, Welfare-to-Work: Which Policies Work and Why? [Keynes Lecture]
- Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Elementary, my dear Watson, the clue is in the genes ... or is it? [Special Lecture]
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