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First Edition. Hardcover. 576 pages. With plates. Annual Volume of Speeches read at the British Academy in 1978 on philosophy, literature, economics, history and literary history. Contents: - The Mind of Nietzsche (Lecture on a Master Mind). By J.P. Stern. Read 6 April 1978 - The Tempest: what sort of play? (Annual Shakespeare Lecture). By H.F. Brooks. Read 27 April 1978 - Keynes, political arithmetic and econometrics (Keynes Lecture in Economics). By Sir Richard Stone. Read 3 May 1978 - The Compilation of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle, 60 BC to AD 890: Vocabulary as Evidence (Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture). By Janet Bately. Read 10 May 1978 - The Pre-Conquest Boroughs of England, Ninth to Eleventh Centuries (Mortimer Wheeler Archaeological Lecture). By C.A. Ralegh Radford. Read 11 May 1978 - A Carolingian Renaissance Prince: the Emperor Charles the Bald (Raleigh Lecture on History). By J.M. Wallace-Hadrill. Read 18 May 1978 - Locke and the Ethics of Belief (Dawes Hicks Lecture). B
