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Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 97

1997 Lectures and Memoirs

Published 1998
for the British Academy by Oxford University Press

234 × 156 mm; 540 pages; 14 half-tones, 5 line figures
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CONTENTS

 

1997 Lectures

  • Hartmut Stegemann, Qumran: Founded for Scripture. The Background and Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls  [Special Lecture]
  • Colin Burrow, Life and Work in Shakespeare’s Poems  [Chatterton Lecture on Poetry]
  • Thomas N Corns, The Poetry of the Caroline Court  [Warton Lecture on English Poetry]
  • Sacvan Bercovitch, The Winthrop Variation: A Model of American Identity  [1998 Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture]
  • David Cannadine, Beyond Class? Social Structures and Social Perceptions in Modern England  [Raleigh Lecture on History]
  • Esther Goody, Social Intelligence and the Emergence of Roles and Rules  [Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology]
  • Christopher Ricks, Plagiarism  [The British Academy Lecture, 1998]
  • Tony Honoré, Being Responsible and Being a Victim of Circumstance  [1998 Maccabaean Lecture in Jurisprudence]
  • Robert M Solow, What is Labour-Market Flexibility? What is it Good for?  [Keynes Lecture in Economics]

All the lectures in this volume have been refereed.

 

Memoirs

  • Birley, Eric Barff, 1906–1995, by Brian Dobson
  • Burrow, Thomas, 1909–1986, by J C Wright
  • Crombie, Alistair Cameron, 1915–1996, by J D North
  • Edwards, Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen, 1909–1996, by T G H James
  • Leach, Edmund Ronald, 1910–1989, by Stanley J Tambiah
  • Lloyd, Antony Charles, 1916–1994, by Richard Sorabji
  • Lloyd, Seton Howard Frederick, 1902–1996, by J D Hawkins
  • MacKinnon, Donald MacKenzie, 1913–1994, by Stewart Sutherland
  • Muir, Kenneth Arthur, 1907–1996, by Inga-Stina Ewbank
  • Piggott, Stuart, 1910–1996, by Roger Mercer
  • Sollberger, Edmond, 1920–1989, by Terence C Mitchell
  • Stokes, Eric Thomas, 1924–1981, by C A Bayly
  • Trendall, Arthur Dale, 1909–1995, by Ian McPhee
  • Wedgwood, Cicely Veronica, 1910–1997, by Austin Woolrych

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