OUP/British Academy - Böcker

The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britain's intellectual life.

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British Academy lectures have previously been published in the Proceedings of the British Academy. Lectures are now made available in the new open access Journal of the British Academy. But they will also be printed in an annual volume. This volum...

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The relationship between non-state terrorism and state counter-terrorism continues to shape world politics. Leading scholars analyse this relationship, examining post-9/11 counter-terrorism, the evolution of al-Qaida, challenges to western counter...

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The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britain's intellectual life.

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The short-lived rebellion of 1915 was led by John Chilembwe, a Baptist minister trained in the USA. This book contains the testimonies presented to the Commission of Inquiry. Together, they are a source for understanding the causes and character o...

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Kilwardby's commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics was written in the heady atmosphere of the early 1200s, when long-forgotten Aristotelian works were being rediscovered. This edition in two volumes makes Kilwardby's Latin text available togeth...

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Kilwardby's commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics was written in the heady atmosphere of the early 1200s, when long-forgotten Aristotelian works were being rediscovered. This edition in two volumes makes Kilwardby's Latin text available togeth...

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An authoritative illustrated cla17arch of all examples of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture in Nottinghamshire. Introductory chapters explore the geological and historical background of the sculptures and provide an overview of the types of style and or...

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St Margaret, known for her confrontation with a dragon-shaped devil, was one of the most famous medieval saints, depicted in manuscript illuminations, sculptures, panel paintings, and stained glass. This handbook is the first comprehensive interdi...

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The Abstractiones is of great historical interest because it gives a window onto how generations of British scholars learned a uniform approach to logic and reasoning from basics up to more sophisticated strategies in modal logic and quantificatio...

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British Academy lectures have previously been published in the Proceedings of the British Academy. Lectures are now made available in the new open access Journal of the British Academy. But they will also be printed in an annual volume. This volum...

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Aspall's commentary on Physics poses questions that discuss crucial issues of Aristotle's natural philosophy: matter, form, nature, change, time, the infinite and the continuum, eternity of the world. This major source for studying the introductio...

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Aspall's commentary on Physics poses questions that discuss crucial issues of Aristotle's natural philosophy: matter, form, nature, change, time, the infinite and the continuum, eternity of the world. This major source for studying the introductio...

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Latin continued to be used across Europe long after the end of the Roman Empire. While not the native language of its users, it was nevertheless used for a wide variety of functions from religion to record-keeping. This book considers various cont...

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The book explores how human societies have used, constructed, and interpreted their pasts. It ranges chronologically from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, and in worldwide geographical scope. The book probes the concept of the 'invention of tr...

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The Weimar Republic is often seen as an era of progress for the arts, but strands of pessimism and conservatism also developed rapidly. In this cultural atmosphere, music and musical scholarship could provide forms of protest and resistance to mod...

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This book provides many fresh perspectives on why and how the Middle Ages continue to matter so much in the 21st century. It is therefore as much about recent cultural and political history as it is about medieval history and medieval literature. ...

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These essays bring into clearer focus the transformation in the study of Russian music that has occurred since glasnost. Concentrating on Russian music since 1917, the volume shows how censorship in the USSR hindered developments in scholarship, a...

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Sunnyside discusses changes to British house names from medieval naming practices to the present-day. The demise of pub names and shop names such as la Worm on the Hope and the Golden Tea Kettle & Speaking Trumpet are detailed alongside the rise o...

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This first part of the Lord Stewartby collection contains over 1450 coins of all metals and denominations issued between 1488 and 1625. It is a period of Scottish history that was politically complex and economically challenging but also vibrant w...

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This, the last of the planned fascicules of the Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani for Great Britain, includes 500 sculptures, all of stone. Its geographical area covers the hinterland of Hadrian's Wall, including the modern counties of County Durham,...

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The volume contains a critical edition of 26 questions (no.75-97, 204, 217-218, 222), mostly concerning the concept of charity or love (caritas). It is part of the Quaestiones Theologiae corpus, the chief speculative work of Stephen Langton, later...

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A history of Asante from the late 17th century to the 1930s, authorized and produced by the 12th Asantehene Osei Agyeman Prempeh II. Perhaps the single longest historical work produced by a ruler of any sub-Saharan African society, this is an indi...

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Judicial Independence Under Threat seeks to situate contemporary challenges to judicial independence in their proper legal, philosophical, political and historical contexts. It asks how threats to judicial independence can be protected against.

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This volume brings the concept of sovereignty into a fresh light through a study of its long history and the realities of a globalised world.

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The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britain's intellectual life.

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Representing Homelessness analyses the representation and self-representation of homelessness. The volume features research from the Arts, Humanities, Sciences and the Social Sciences, as well as writings by people with lived experience of homeles...

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Propaganda, Gender, and Cultural Power tells the story of the gendered methods, policies, and institutions that contributed to the making of French cultural diplomacy in Britain, against the backdrop of war, changing Franco-British relations, Euro...

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In early modern Europe, literature and literate knowledge were produced within societies organised along hierarchical lines. What difference did that make to literature and literate knowledge? How were they inflected by social hierarchy? This volu...

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Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia rethinks the role of migrations in late prehistoric Eurasia, integrating cutting-edge scientific analyses with theoretical perspectives that highlight the complexity of past population movements.

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