Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 117: 2001 LecturesOUP/British Academy, 2002 - 543 pages Volume 117 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 16 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2001. |
Contents
CONTENTS | 40 |
Prosperity and Power in the Age of Bede and Beowulf | 49 |
How Northern was the Northern Master at Assisi? | 73 |
An Age of Reconciliation? | 139 |
Shakespeares Sense of an Exit | 165 |
The Life of Learning | 201 |
A Third Concept of Liberty | 237 |
Milton to Shelley | 269 |
Tradition and Innovation | 325 |
The Disease of Language and the Language of Disease | 355 |
Gertrude Steins Differential Syntax | 401 |
The Vision of Keith Douglas | 429 |
The Common Laws Approach | 445 |
Which Policies Work and Why? | 477 |
Elementary my dear Watson the clue is in the genes or is it? | 525 |
A Contrast in Social Ethics | 297 |
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