Norman Baynes's Raleigh Lecture on Constantine, delivered in 1930 and published the following year, provided not only a major and incisive contribution to the study of the Emperor and the early Christian Church, but also a unique survey of research up to that date. Subsequent bibliographical surveys have done no more than supplement his work on defined areas within the field. This important lecture is now reprinted with a new Preface by Dr. Henry Chadwick which outlines the progress of studies on the subject in the intervening forty years, including Baynes's own contributions before his death in 1961.

Constantine the Great and the Christian Church

Norman H. Baynes

Religion & Spirituality

British Academy

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

History

Blake,Robert

World

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

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 (British Academy)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Sylloge: (SCBI 7) Copenhagen 2

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Galster, G.

Antiques & Collectibles

The Finds from the Site of La Tene I

De Navarro, J. M.

Military

Sylloge: (SCBI 13) Royal Coll.. Pt IIIA

Sylloge: (SCBI 14) Royal Coll.. Pt IIIB

Sylloge: (SCBI 15) Royal Coll..PtIIIC

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

Ancient Civilizations

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