Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 117 - Volume 117: 2001 Lectures

Volume 117 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 13 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2001.

List of contents

• The Origins of Chinese Mountain Painting: Evidence from Archaeology


• Prosperity and Power in the Age of Bede and Beowulf


• How Northern was the Northern Master at Assisi?


• After Glyn Dwr: An Age of Reconciliation?


• A World Elsewhere: Shakespeare's Sense of an Exit


• The Life of Learning


• A Third Concept of Liberty


• Poetry against Empire: Milton to Shelley


• Two Enlightenments: A Contrast in Social Ethics


• The Origins of a National Monarchy: Tradition and Innovation in the Cult of the House of Savoy during the Risorgimento


• The Disease of Language and the Language of Disease


• Gertrude Stein's Differential Syntax


• 'I see men as trees suffering': The Vision of Keith Douglas


• Reason or Mumbo Jumbo: The Common Law's Approach to Property


• Welfare-to-Work: Which Policies Work and Why?


• Elementary, my dear Watson, the clue is in the genes ... or is it?

Product details

• Authors: F M L Thompson
• Publisher: British Academy
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.09.2003
• EAN: 9780197262795
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726279-5
• No. of pages: 556
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 246 mm x 42 mm
• Weight: 1238 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general)