Author: BRITISH ACADEMY
Title: Proceedings of the British Academy Volume LXX 1984
Description: London: British Academy, 1985. First Edition; First Edition. Original Boards. 554 pages. With plates & illustrations. ; Hardcover; Annual Volume of Speeches read at the British Academy in 1984 on philosophy, literature, economics, history and literary history. Contents: - Geometrical Perspective from Brunelleschi to Desargues: a pictorial means or an intellectual end? (Aspects of Art Lecture) . By Martin Kemp. Read 15 February 1984- The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins: +Catching the Demi-Urge in the Act+ (Warton Lecture on English Poetry) . By Graham Storey. Read 15 March 1984- The Dramatic Structure of Shakespeare+s King Henry the Eight: an Essay in Rehabilitation (Shakespeare Lecture) . By Glynne Wickham. Read 3 May 1984- Knowledge, Truth, and Reliability (Philosophical Lecture) . By Simon Blackburn. Read 10 May 1984- Under the Lineage+s Shadow (Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology) . By Jack Goody. Read 15 May 1984- Animal Spirits (Keynes Lecture in Economics) . By R. C. O. Matthews. Read 7 June 1984- Unideal Principles of editing old English verse (Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture) . By E. G. Stanley. Read 23 October 1984- Core and Periphery in modern British History (Raleigh Lecture on History) . By Keith Robbins. Read 1 November 1984- Elizabeth Bishop (Chatterton Lecture on Poetry) . By Andrew Motion. Read 9 November 1984- An interpenetration of opposites? Pre-Han bronze metallurgy in west China (Mortimer Wheeler Archaeological Lecture) . By William Watson. Read 5 December 1984- Jacob Burckhardt (Master-Mind Lecture) . By Hugh Trevor-Roper. Read 11 December 1984. New with no dust jacket .

Keywords: Humanities & Cultural Sciences