Author: BRITISH ACADEMY
Title: Proceedings of the British Academy Volume LIX 1973
Description: London: British Academy, 1975. First Edition; First Edition. Original Boards. 513 pages. With plates & tables. Glassine dustjacket. Light shelfwear. Light wear & light chipping to dustjacket. ; Hardcover; Annual Volume of Speeches read at the British Academy in 1973 on philosophy, literature, economics, history and literary history. Contents: - Family Breakdown and Social Policy (Maccabaean Lecture in Jurisprudence) . By O. R. McGregor. Read 17 January 1973- Some Reflections of a medieval criminologist (Raleigh Lecture on History) . By Ralph B. Pugh. Read 7 February 1973- The Poetry of Thomas Gray: Versions of the Self (Chatterton Lecture on an English Poet) . By Roger Lonsdale. Read 21 February 1973- Some aspects of the American short story (Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture in American Literature and History) . By W. E. Allen. Read 21 March 1973- Tiberius and Pontius Pilate in Ethiopian Tradition and Poetry. By E. Cerulli. Read 11 April 1973- Shakespeare+s Tragic Fiction (Shakespeare Lecture) . By Clifford Leech. Read 2 May 1973- Leibniz and Descartes: Proof and Eternal Truths (Dawes Hicks Lecture on Philosophy) . By Ian Hacking. Read 6 June 1973- The Lion and the Ostrich (Thank-Offering to Britain Fund Lecture) . By Arthur Koestler. Read 27 June 1973- The Justification of Deduction (Philosophical Lecture) . By M. A. E. Dummett. Read 10 October 1973- The Welsh Latin Chronicles: Annales Cambriae and related texts (Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture) . By Kathleen Hughes. Read 17 October 1973- Kition: Mycenaean and Phoenician (Mortimer Wheeler Archaeological Lecture) . By Vassos Karageorghis. Read 24 October 1973- Urban interaction on the Iranian plateau: excavations at Tepe Yahya, 1967-1973 (Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture) . By C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky. Read 14 November 1973- The poetry of William Collins (Warton Lecture on English Poetry) . By Arthur Johnston. Read 21 November 1973- Manzoni and the Catholic Revival (Italian Lecture) . By Carlo Dionisotti. Read 28 November 1973- The inheritance of inequalities: some biological, demographic, social, and economic factors (Keynes Lecture) . By J. E. Meade. Read 5 December 1973. New in Very Good dust jacket .

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