This is a collection of lectures dealing with subjects from the humanities on topics ranging from literature and poetry to history, art, philosophy, economics, anthropology and archaeology. The subjects span the whole range of history and are not restricted geographically to any area. The lectures include the following: "Ambrogio Lorenzetti - the artist as political philosopher", "Thurstan of Caen and Plainchant at Glastonbury: musicological reflections on the Norman Conquest", "Wyclif", "The Almohad mosque of Tinmal, Morocco: some new aspects of Islamic architectural typology", "On the tendency of human societies to form varieties", "The corridors of history: Shakespeare the re-maker", "Wordsworth's 'grand design'", "From Medieval to Renaissance?, Chaucer's position on past gentility", "Explaining economic growth", "Old English 'wicing': a question of semantics", "Hegel on self-consciousness" and "American political culture and the Asian frontier, 1943-1973". Also included is a selection of memoirs on the following: Hedley Norman Bull (1932-1985), Stanley Lawrence Greenslade (1905-1977), Guy Thompson Griffith (1908-1985), Aubrey Rodway Johnson (1901-1985), Lorenzo Minio-Paluello (1907-1986), Beryl Smalley (1905-1984), Harry Street (1919-1984), Carol Humphrey Vivian Sutherland (1908-1986), Daniel Pickering Walker (1914-1985), William Henry Walsh (1913-1986), Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse (1905-1985) and Philip Maynard Williams (1920-1984).
| ISBN: | 9780197260647 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 1988 |
| Author: | The British Academy |
| Publisher: | The British Academy an imprint of Liverpool University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 560 pages |
| Series: | Proceedings of the British Academy: Themed Volumes of Essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Genres: |
Cultural studies |
This is a collection of lectures dealing with subjects from the humanities on topics ranging from literature and poetry to history, art, philosophy, economics, anthropology and archaeology. The subjects span the whole range of history and are not restricted geographically to any area. The lectures include the following: "Ambrogio Lorenzetti - the artist as political philosopher", "Thurstan of Caen and Plainchant at Glastonbury: musicological reflections on the Norman Conquest", "Wyclif", "The Almohad mosque of Tinmal, Morocco: some new aspects of Islamic architectural typology", "On the tendency of human societies to form varieties", "The corridors of history: Shakespeare the re-maker", "Wordsworth's 'grand design'", "From Medieval to Renaissance?, Chaucer's position on past gentility", "Explaining economic growth", "Old English 'wicing': a question of semantics", "Hegel on self-consciousness" and "American political culture and the Asian frontier, 1943-1973". Also included is a selection of memoirs on the following: Hedley Norman Bull (1932-1985), Stanley Lawrence Greenslade (1905-1977), Guy Thompson Griffith (1908-1985), Aubrey Rodway Johnson (1901-1985), Lorenzo Minio-Paluello (1907-1986), Beryl Smalley (1905-1984), Harry Street (1919-1984), Carol Humphrey Vivian Sutherland (1908-1986), Daniel Pickering Walker (1914-1985), William Henry Walsh (1913-1986), Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse (1905-1985) and Philip Maynard Williams (1920-1984).
LXXII. 1986 features in the following genres: Cultural studies
LXXII. 1986 is available in Hardback
LXXII. 1986 was written by The British Academy and published by The British Academy an imprint of Liverpool University Press
LXXII. 1986 has 560 pages
Yes it is part of Proceedings of the British Academy: Themed Volumes of Essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences series
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