Full Description
Volume 117 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 16 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2001.
Contents
Jessica Rawson: The Origins of Chinese Mountain Painting: Evidence from Archaeology
J. R. Maddicott: Prosperity and Power in the Age of Bede and Beowulf
Paul Binksi: How Northern was the Northern Master at Assisi?
Ralph Griffiths: After Glyn Dwr: An Age of Reconciliation?
Richard Wilson: A World Elsewhere: Shakespeare's Sense of an Exit
Keith Thomas: The Life of Learning
Quentin Skinner: A Third Concept of Liberty
Karen O'Brien: Poetry against Empire: Milton to Shelley
Gertrude Himmelfarb: Two Enlightenments: A Contrast in Social Ethics
Adrian Lyttelton: The Origins of a National Monarchy: Tradition and Innovation in the Cult of the House of Savoy during the Risorgimento
James W. Fernandez: The Disease of Language and the Language of Disease
Marjorie Perloff: Gertrude Stein's Differential Syntax
Tim Kendall: 'I see men as trees suffering': The Vision of Keith Douglas
J. W. Harris: Reason or Mumbo Jumbo: The Common Law's Approach to Property
Richard Blundell: Welfare-to-Work: Which Policies Work and Why?
Annette Karmiloff-Smith: Elementary, my dear Watson, the clue is in the genes ... or is it?
