Illuminates 250 years of constitutional history by discussing the relations between the Prime Minister, the Crown, the Cabinet and both Houses of Parliament.

The Office of Prime Minister (Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture)

History

Blake,Robert

World

The British Academy

The story of the Exodus has been one of the most vexing historico-Biblical problems to confront scholars. The fundamental chronological problems are of the utmost complexity, yet they materially affect the view that is taken of Israel's religious development. Delivered in 1948, these lectures consider the Biblical traditions, the surviving extra-Biblical texts, and the archaeological evidence.

From Joseph to Joshua: Biblical Traditions in the Light of Archaeology (The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy, 1948)

H. H. Rowley

Religion & Spirituality

Delivered in 1946, these lectures discuss the use of textual criticisms in the attempt to recover the original text of Paul's Epistles. In particular, there is a detailed analysis of the manuscript P46.

The Text of the Epistles: A Disquisition Upon the Corpus Paulinum (Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology, 1946)

Zuntz, G.

The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources is an indispensable guide to the study of the Latin Middle Ages in Britain from the sixth century to the sixteenth. It is prepared under the direction of a British Academy committee, initially by R.E. Latham and now by a team headed by D.R. Howlett and will be published in ten fascicules. The Dictionary both records the usage of Classical and Late Latin in this period, and charts the medieval developments of the language as revealed in a rich variety of printed and manuscript sources. Latin was not static and inflexible, but was as receptive as English was to the needs of everyday life (and to the needs of users often barely literate). Each fascicule contains hundreds of new word formations. Some of the borrowings from other languages are recorded in Latin centuries before their appearance in written vernacular. The Dictionary is of immeasurable vallue to all medievalists, as important for cultural history as it is for linguistics. To confirmed dictionary browsers, even those with rusty Latin, it offers many delights.

Revised Medieval Latin Word List from British and Irish Sources (Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, Supplementary)

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Traditionally, Ethiopia has formed a bridge between civilizations, with Jerusalem as vital as Askum in the national consciousness of the Ethiopians.  In this volume, Ullendorff investigates the relationship of Ethiopia to the Bible.  He considers the historical background, translations of the Bible into Ethiopian languages, and the impact of the Old Testament, which goes beyond anything experienced in the other Oriental Christian Churches.

Ethiopia and the Bible (Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology 1967)

Ullendorff, Edward

Ancient Civilizations

This is the third edition of the late Sir Godfrey Driver's Schweich Lectures, first delivered in 1944. The present edition is based on extensive revisions and additions made by the author himself. The third edition takes account of research and discoveries in the fields of Semitic epigraphy and the theory of writing. It deals with cuneiform scripts, the origins of alphabetic writing, its development from the earliest records until its transmission to the Greeks, and covers all the more important North-Semitic inscriptions. Theories regarding forms of letters, their names, place in the alphabetical sequence etc. are discussed at length.

Semitic Writing: From Pictograph to Alphabet

Driver, G R

VI. The Lewis Collection in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: Part I. The Greek and Hellenistic Coins (with Britain and Parthia) (Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, 6)

Robinson, E. S. G.

xxiv + 211 pp. with 56 figs. &amp; 36 plates, 8vo.

Hazor: With a Chapter on Israelite Megiddo

Yadin, Yigael

Middle East

The honour of Mowbray, which was created by King Henry I for Nigel d'Aubigny, was one of the greatest feudal estates of the Anglo-Norman kingdom, with territories in ten English counties and in Normandy. The 400 collected charters of the first three generations of the Mowbray family provide abundant material for a study of the feudal structure, economy, and administration of the honour between 1107 and 1191. The introduction to the collection examines such topics as the pattern of enfeoffment and ecclesiastical endowment, the management of the demesne, the process of colonization, and the organization of the household.

Charters of the Honour of Mowbray (Records of Social & Economic History, New Series)

Business & Money

Greenway, D. E.

Real Estate

Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, National Museum, Copenhagen: Part IV. Anglo-Saxon Coins from Harold I and Anglo-Norman Coins (Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 18)

Georg GALSTER

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