Abstract

M F Burnyeat, Plato [Master-Mind Lecture] David W Phillipson, Aksum: An African Civilisation in its World Contexts [Reckitt Lecture] Michael Lapidge, Beowulf and Perception [Gollancz Lecture] Graham Bradshaw, Shakespeare’s Peculiarity [1997 Shakespeare Lecture] Peter Holland, Beginning in the Middle [Shakespeare Lecture] Margaret Kean, Waiting for God: John Milton’s Poems of 1671 [Chatterton Lecture] Malcolm Yapp, The Legend of the Great Game [Kedourie Lecture] Shula Marks, White Masculinity: Jan Smuts, Race and the South African War [Raleigh Lecture] Helen Vendler, Wallace Stevens: Hypotheses and Contradictions [Warton Lecture] John Sutton, Rich Trades, Scarce Capabilities: Industrial Development Revisited [Keynes Lecture, with discussion] The Right Honourable the Lord Irvine of Lairg, The Law: an Engine for Trade [Thank-Offering to Britain Lecture] Dan Sperber, Conceptual Tools for a Natural Science of Society and Culture [1999 Radcliffe-Brown Lecture] Amartya Sen, Other People [British Academy Lecture] Extended obituaries of 17 Fellows of the Academy.