2000 Lectures and Memoirs

Volume published 2001

Plato [Master-Mind]
M F Burnyeat, pages 1-22


Aksum: An African Civilisation in its World Contexts [Reckitt]
David W Phillipson, pages 23-59


Beowulf and Perception [Gollancz]
Michael Lapidge, pages 61-97


Shakespeare’s Peculiarity [Shakespeare, 1997]
Graham Bradshaw, pages 99-126


Beginning in the Middle [Shakespeare]
Peter Holland, pages 127-155


Waiting for God: John Milton’s Poems of 1671 [Chatterton]
Margaret Kean, pages 157-177


The Legend of the Great Game [Kedourie]
Malcolm Yapp, pages 179-198


White Masculinity: Jan Smuts, Race and the South African War [Raleigh]
Shula Marks, pages 199-223


Wallace Stevens: Hypotheses and Contradictions [Warton]
Helen Vendler, pages 225-244


Rich Trades, Scarce Capabilities: Industrial Development Revisited [with discussion by Keith Pavitt and Bruce Lyons] [Keynes]
John Sutton, pages 245-273


The Law: an Engine for Trade [Thank-Offering]
The Right Honourable the Lord Irvine of Lairg, pages 275-296


Conceptual Tools for a Natural Science of Society and Culture [Radcliffe-Brown, 1999]
Dan Sperber, pages 297-317


Other People [British Academy]
Amartya Sen, pages 319-335


Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham, 1904–1988
Brian Trowell, pages 339-393


Terence Alan Martyn Bishop, 1907–1994
David Ganz, pages 397-410


William Brass, 1921–1999
John Blacker, pages 413-426


David Daube, 1909–1999
Peter Stein, pages 429-444


Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix, 1910–2000
Robert Parker, pages 447-478


Carlo Dionisotti, 1908–1998
Giulio Lepschy, pages 481-496


John Niemeyer Findlay, 1903–1987
Alasdair MacIntyre, pages 499-512


Herbert Paul Grice, 1913–1988
Peter Strawson & David Wiggins, pages 515-528


John Rigby Hale, 1923–1999
Michael Mallett, pages 531-550


Harold Jenkins, 1909–2000
E A J Honigmann, pages 553-572


Mary Madge Lascelles, 1900–1995
Claire Lamont, pages 575-591


Mary Douglas Leakey, 1913–1996
J Desmond Clark, pages 595-614


Margery Freda Perham, 1895–1982
Patricia Pugh, pages 617-633


Leon Radzinowicz, 1906–1999
Roger Hood, pages 637-655


Leighton Durham Reynolds, 1930–1999
Michael Winterbottom, pages 659-676


Edward Arthur Thompson, 1914–1994
R A Markus, pages 679-693


John Ellis Caerwyn Williams, 1912–1999
D Ellis Evans, pages 697-716


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