Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 154, 2007 Lectures

by Johnston, FBA, Ron

• ISBN13: 9780197264355
• ISBN10: 0197264352
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-15
• Publisher: British Academy

Summary

Volume 154 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 17 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2007. From commemoration of the American Civil War, to an examination of our capacity as human beings to live in the world of imagination, and the opportunities and challenges which face cultural institutions in Britain today.

Table of Contents

Celtic Origins, the Western and the Eastern Celts

Anthropology is not Ethnography

Timothy Ingold Hamlet's Two Fathers

Byzantium and the Limits of Orthodoxy

Palace or Power Station? Museums Today

Architectural Politics in Renaissance Venice

Deborah Howard Visions of European Unity since 1945

Artists and Craftsmen in the Late Bronze Age of China (Eighth-Third Centuries BC)

Art in Transition, Alain Thote Reconstructing the National Body

Masculinity, Disability and Race in the American Civil War

Grant Mind the Gap or Why Humans aren't just Great Apes

'We keep the bread and wine for show'

Consistent Irony and Reluctant Faith in the Poetry of Dannie Abse

'But I, that knew what harboured in that hed'

Wyatt and his Posthumous 'Interpreters'

Classical Music and the Subject of Modernity

A Minority Opinion?

Baroness Hale of Richmond Seventeenth Century Draining of the Fens and the Impact on Navigation

From Shells and Gold to Plastic and Silicon: a Theory of the Evolution of Money, in the Spirit of Keynes, John Moore Theopoesis

The Contest of Priest and Poet, Geoffrey Hartman

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