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Book SynopsisVolume 125 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 15 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2003.
Table of ContentsThinking in Threes: The Triad in Early Irish Literature ; Charity and Usury: Jewish and Christian Lending in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy ; The Crescent and the City of the Sun: Islam and the Renaissance Utopia of Tommaso Campanella ; The Foundations of Shakespeare's Text ; The Re-Description of Enlightenment ; Michael Drayton and the Burden of History ; Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator? ; Revenants and Migrants: Hardy, Butler, Woolf and Sebald ; Scholarship and the Musical: Reclaiming Jerome Kern ; The Rule of Law in International Affairs ; 'The Nation Within': British India at War 1939-47 ; Economics for Consumer Policy ; The Geography of Descent ; Working Memory and Learning During the School Years ; Carving Stone Sutras before the World Ends: The Inscription of 1118 CE at Cloud Dwelling Monastery near Beijing
