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Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 87

1994 Lectures and Memoirs

Published 1995
[originally available from Oxford University Press]
now available from OXBOW BOOKS

234 × 156 mm; 528 pages; 15 half-tones
hardback, ISBN 0-19-726162-0

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CONTENTS:

1994 Lectures

  • Kush: An African State in the First Millenium BC, LÁSZLÓ TÖRÖK   [1995 Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture]
  • The Late Anglo-Saxon State: A Maximum View, JAMES CAMPBELL   [1991 Raleigh Lecture on History]
  • ‘Pite for to here — pite for to se’: Some Scenes of Pathos in Late Medieval English Literature, DOUGLAS GRAY   [Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture]
  • Violence and Sensationalism in the Plays of Shakespeare and other Dramatists, JOHN RUSSELL BROWN   [Shakespeare Lecture]
  • Voltaire, MARC FUMAROLI   [Master-Mind Lecture]
  • From Confederation to Compromise: The Austrian Experiment, 1849–1867, R. J. W. EVANS   [Raleigh Lecture on History]
  • ‘The glow-worm’s 96 per cent efficiency’: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry of Knowledge, ROBERT CRAWFORD   [Chatterton Lecture on Poetry]
  • A Future for the Past: The Political Economy of Heritage, ALAN PEACOCK   [Keynes Lecture in Economics, with discussion by Christopher Smout, Mark Blaug, The Rt Hon Sir Richard Luce, et al.]  

Memoirs

  • Edward John Mostyn Bowlby, 1907–1990, COLIN MURRAY PARKES
  • John Manuel Cook, 1910–1994, JOHN BOARDMAN
  • Frederick Charles Copleston, 1907–1994, GERARD J. HUGHES
  • Henry Clifford Darby, 1909–1992, MICHAEL WILLIAMS
  • Reynold Alleyne Higgins, 1916–1993, J. N. COLDSTREAM
  • Geoffrey Shorter Holmes, 1928–1993, AUSTIN WOOLRYCH
  • William George Hoskins, 1908–1992, JOAN THIRSK
  • Elie Kedourie, 1926–1992, ALAN BEATTIE
  • William Calvert Kneale, 1906–1990, TIMOTHY SMILEY
  • George Daniel Ramsay, 1909–1992, R. B. WERNHAM
  • John Kenneth Sinclair St Joseph, 1912–1994, D. R. WILSON
  • Robert Bertram Serjeant, 1915–1993, G. REX SMITH
  • Adrian Nicholas Sherwin-White, 1911–1993, P. A. BRUNT
  • Otto Skutsch, 1906–1990, G. P. GOOLD
  • Günther Zuntz, 1902–1992, MARTIN HENGEL