Proceedings of the British Academy

Since 1905 this series has provided a unique record of British scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. It now publishes themed volumes of essays that drive scholarship forward and are landmarks in their field.

ISSN 0068-1202

New volumes are published by Oxford University Press. 


Proceedings volumes 182 onwards are included in British Academy Scholarship Online (BASO). Newly published volumes are added to BASO three times a year.

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Volumes 182 – 257

257. Theoretical Linguistics in the Pre-University Classroom, edited by Alice Corr and Anna Pineda
312 pages
978-0-19-726747-9 hbk 2023 available from OUP £90.00 in print, also available as an ebook


256. New Lives, New Landscapes Revisited, edited by Linda M. Ross, Katrina Navickas, Ben Anderson, and Matthew Kelly
320 pages
978-0-19-726745-5 hbk 2023 available from OUP £83.00 in print, also available as an ebook


255. The Right against Rights in Latin America, edited by Leigh A. Payne, Julia Zulver, and Simón Escoffier
302 pages
978-0-19-726739-4 hbk 2023 available from OUP £70.00


254. Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia, edited by Manuel Fernández-Götz, Courtney Nimura, Philipp W. Stockhammer, and Rachel Cartwright
336 pages
978-0-19-726735-6 hbk 2022 volume available from OUP £85.00


253. Sovereignty: A Global Perspective, edited by Christopher Smith
364 pages
978-0-19-726712-7 hbk 2022 volume available from OUP £95.00


252. Roberto Gerhard: Re-Appraising a Musical Visionary in Exile, edited by Monty Adkins and Rachel E. Mann
324 pages
978-0-19-726713-4 hbk 2022 volume available from OUP £85.00


251. Data Science for Migration and Mobility, edited by Albert Ali Salah, Emre Eren Korkmaz, and Tuba Bircan
474 pages
978-0-19-726710-3 hbk 2022 volume available from OUP £90.00 supplementary material available


250. Judicial Independence Under Threat, edited by Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos and Yvonne McDermott
282 pages
978-0-19-726703-5 hbk 2022 volume available from OUP £70.00 in print, also available as an ebook


249. Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400, edited by Matthew C. Augustine, Giulio J. Pertile, Steven N. Zwicker
418 pages
978-0-19-726707-3 hbk 2022 volume available from OUP £80.00 in print, also available as an ebook


248. Collaboration in Authoritarian and Armed Conflict Settings, edited by Juan Espindola and Leigh A. Payne
294 pages
978-0-19-726705-9 hbk 2022 volume available from OUP £70.00


247. The Habsburg Monarchy as a Fiscal-Military State: Contours and Perspectives 1648-1815, edited by William D. Godsey and Petr Maťa
390 pages
978-0-19-726734-9 hbk 2022 volume available from OUP £95.00


246. Literature, Learning, and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe, edited by Neil Kenny
312 pages
978-0-19-726733-2 hbk 2022 volume available from OUP £75.00


245. A Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhardt's Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered, edited by Stefan Bauer and Simon Ditchfield
312 pages
978-0-19-726732-5 hbk 2022 volume available from OUP £70.00


244. Towns on the Edge in Medieval Europe: The Social and Political Order of Peripheral Urban Communities from the Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries, edited by Matthew Frank Stevens and Roman Czaja
282 pages
978-0-19-726730-1 hbk 2022 volume available from OUP £70.00


243. Buddhism and Its Religious Others: Historical Encounters and Representations, edited by C.V. Jones
280 pages
978-0-19-726699-1 hbk 2022 volume available from OUP £65.00


242. Harmony and Contrast: Plato and Aristotle in the Early Modern Period, edited by Anna Corrias and Eva Del Soldato
262 pages
978-0-19-726729-5 hbk 2022 volume available from OUP £65.00


241. Economic Actors and the Limits of Transitional Justice: Truth and Justice for Business Complicity in Human Rights Violations, edited by Leigh A. Payne, Laura Bernal-Bermúdez, and Gabriel Pereira
342 pages
978-0-19-726726-4 hbk 2022 volume available from OUP £75.00


240. Faces of the Infinite: Neoplatonism and Poetry at the Confluence of Africa, Asia and Europe, edited by Stefan Sperl and Yorgos Dedes
504 pages, plus accompanying website: lyrics-of-ascent.net
978-0-19-726725-7 hbk 2022 volume available from OUP £95.00


239. Representing Homelessness, edited by Owen Clayton
234 pages
978-0-19-726724-0 hbk 2021 volume available from OUP £65.00


238. Time on a Human Scale: Experiencing the Present in Europe, 1860-1930, edited by Julian Wright and Allegra Fryxell
344 pages
978-0-19-726697-7  hbk    2021 volume available from OUP   £80.00


237. Disappearances in the Post-Transition Era in Latin America, edited by Karina Ansolabehere, Barbara A. Frey and Leigh A. Payne
304 pages
978-0-19-726722-6  hbk    2021 volume available from OUP   £75.00


236. Song Beyond the Nation: Translation, Transnationalism, Performance, edited by Philip Ross Bullock and Laura Tunbridge
352 pages
978-0-19-726719-6  hbk    2021 volume available from OUP   £90.00


235. Vulnerability and the Politics of Care: Transdiciplinary Dialogues, edited by Victoria Browne, Jason Danely, and Doerthe Rosenow
288 pages
978-0-19-726683-0  hbk    2021 volume available from OUP   £75.00


234. Tracing the Relationship between Inequality, Crime, and Punishment: Space, Time, and Politics, edited by Nicola Lacey, David Soskice, Leonidas Cheliotis, and Sappho Xenakis
370 pages
978-0-19-726692-2  hbk    2021 volume available from OUP   £95.00


233. Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond, edited by Sarah M. H. Nouwen, Laura M. James and Sharath Srinivasan
360 pages
978-0-19-726695-3  hbk    2020 volume available from OUP   £90.00


232. Defending the Faith: Global Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century, edited by Todd Weir and Hugh McLeod
336 pages
978-0-19-726691-5  hbk    2020 volume available from OUP   £85.00


231. Village Institutions in Egypt in the Roman to Early Arab Periods, edited by Micaela Langellotti and D. W. Rathbone
208 pages
978-0-19-726677-9  hbk    2020 volume available from OUP   £45.00


230. Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today, edited by Ceren Özpınar and Mary Kelly
240 pages
978-0-19-726674-8  hbk    2020 volume available from OUP   £60.00


229. Migrants in Medieval England, c. 500-c. 1500, edited by W. Mark Ormrod, Joanna Story, and Elizabeth M. Tyler
352 pages
978-0-19-726672-4  hbk    2020 volume available from OUP   £80.00


228. Interdisciplinary Barthes, edited by Diana Knight
310 pages
978-0-19-726667-0  hbk    2020 volume available from OUP   £70.00


227. Total War: An Emotional History, edited by Lucy Noakes, Claire Langhamer, and Claudia Siebrecht
183 pages
978-0-19-726666-3  hbk    2020 volume available from OUP    £55.00


226. The Anglosphere: Continuity, Dissonance and Location, edited by Ben Wellings and Andrew Mycock
248 pages
978-0-19-726661-8  hbk    2019    volume available from OUP    £65.00


225. Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe: An Episode in the History of the Humanities, edited by Nicholas Hardy and Dmitri Levitin
426 pages
978-0-19-726660-1  hbk    2019    volume available from OUP    £85.00


224. Power and Place in Europe in the Early Middle Ages, edited by Jayne Carroll, Andrew Reynolds, and Barbara Yorke
496 pages
978-0-19-726658-8  hbk    2019 (now manufactured on demand)    volume available from OUP    £105.00


223. The Music Road: Coherence and Diversity in Music from the Mediterranean to India, edited by Reinhard Strohm
416 pages
978-0-19-726656-4  hbk    2019    volume available from OUP    £90.00


222. Changing Names: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Greek Onomastics, edited by Robert Parker
306 pages
978-0-19-726654-0  hbk    2019 volume available from OUP    £65.00


221. Ariosto, the Orlando Furioso and English Culture, edited by Jane E Everson, Andrew Hiscock, and Stefano Jossa
372 pages
978-0-19-726650-2  hbk    2019    volume available from OUP    £75.00


220. Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy: Methodological Challenges and Advances, edited by Genevieve LeBaron
218 pages
978-0-19-726647-2  hbk    2018    volume available from OUP    £45.00


219. Sensory Substitution and Augmentation, edited by Fiona Macpherson
326 pages
978-0-19-726644-1  hbk    2018 volume available from OUP    £70.00


218. The Translation of Films, 1900-1950, edited by Carol O’Sullivan and Jean-François Cornu
344 pages + 8 colour plates
978-0-19-726643-4  hbk    2019    volume available from OUP    £70.00


217. Governing England: English Identity and Institutions in a Changing United Kingdom, edited by Michael Kenny, Iain McLean and Akash Paun
308 pages
978-0-19-726646-5  hbk    2018    volume available from OUP    £65.00


216. Legal Strategies for the Development and Protection of Communal Property, edited by Ting Xu and Alison Clarke
254 pages
978-0-19-726638-0  hbk    2018    volume available from OUP    £65.00


215. Growing Up in Diverse Societies: The Integration of the Children of Immigrants in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, edited by Frank Kalter, Jan O Jonsson, Frank van Tubergen and Anthony Heath
420 pages
978-0-19-726637-3  hbk    2018    volume available from OUP    £85.00


214. Philosophy and the Historical Perspective, edited by Marcel van Ackeren with Lee Klein
264 pages
978-0-19-726629-8  hbk    2018 volume available from OUP    £65.00


213. The First World War: Literature, Culture, Modernity, edited by Santanu Das and Kate McLoughlin
282 pages
978-0-19-726626-7  hbk    2018 volume available from OUP    £65.00


212. Archives & Information in the Early Modern World, edited by Liesbeth Corens, Kate Peters and Alexandra Walsham
344 pages
978-0-19-726625-0  hbk   2018   volume available from OUP   £70.00


211. Defining the Discographic Self: Desert Island Discs in Context, edited by Julie Brown, Nicholas Cook and Stephen Cottrell
328 pages
978-0-19-726617-5  hbk   2017 volume available from OUP   £80.00


210. The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in the Long Twentieth Century, edited by Cheryl Misak and Huw Price
184 pages
978-0-19-726616-8  hbk    2017 volume available from OUP    £45.00


209. Russian Music since 1917: Reappraisal and Rediscovery, edited by Patrick Zuk and Marina Frolova-Walker
448 pages
978-0-19-726615-1  hbk    2017 (now manufactured on demand) volume available from OUP    £85.00


208. The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-first Century Perspectives, edited by Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones
368 pages + 16 colour plate pages 
978-0-19-726614-4  hbk    2017 (now manufactured on demand) volume available from OUP    £85.00


207. How the Past was Used: Historical Cultures, c. 750-2000, edited by Peter Lambert and Björn Weiler
328 pages
978-0-19-726612-0  hbk    2017 volume available from OUP    £90.00


206. Latin in Medieval Britain, edited by Richard Ashdowne and Carolinne White
374 pages
978-0-19-726608-3  hbk    2017 volume available from OUP    £80.00


205. Gertrude Bell and Iraq: A Life and Legacy, edited by Paul Collins and Charles Tripp
324 pages
978-0-19-726607-6  hbk    2017 volume available from OUP    £75.00


204. The Politics of Counsel in England and Scotland, 1286-1707, edited by Jacqueline Rose
316 pages
978-0-19-726603-8  hbk    2016    volume available from OUP    £70.00


203. Illusions of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism, edited by Richard English
184 pages
978-0-19-726590-1  hbk    2015 (from 2017 manufactured on demand)    volume available from OUP    £40.00
[British Academy Blog piece by Richard English]


202. Making History: Edward Augustus Freeman and Victorian Cultural Politics, edited by G A Bremner & Jonathan Conlin
332 pages
978-0-19-726587-1  hbk    2015 volume available from OUP     £70.00
[interview with editors: audio version (Soundcloud)  | British Academy Review version]


201. Insular Books: Vernacular Manuscript Miscellanies in Late Medieval Britain, edited by Margaret Connolly & Raluca Radulescu
342 pages
978-0-19-726583-3  hbk    2015 volume available from OUP     £70.00


200. From Anatolia to Aceh: Ottomans, Turks and Southeast Asia, edited by A C S Peacock & Annabel Teh Gallop
364 pages
978-0-19-726581-9    hbk    2015 volume available from OUP     £80.00


199. Endangered Languages: Beliefs and Ideologies in Language Documentation and Revitalization, edited by Peter K Austin & Julia Sallabank
442 pages
978-0-19-726576-5    hbk    2014 (from 2016, manufactured on demand) volume available from OUP     £90.00


198. Early Farmers: The View from Archaeology and Science, edited by Alasdair Whittle & Penny Bickle
460 pages + 12 colour plate pages
978-0-19-726575-8    hbk    2014, repr 2015 (from 2017 manufactured on demand)     volume available from OUP     £95.00


197. When the Party’s Over: The Politics of Fiscal Squeeze in Perspective, edited by Christopher Hood, David Heald & Rozana Himaz
296 pages
978-0-19-726573-4   hbk    2014 (from 2016, manufactured on demand) volume available from OUP     £65.00
[British Academy Blog piece by Christopher Hood, David Heald & Rozana Himaz


196. Unequal Attainments: Ethnic Educational Inequalities in Ten Western Countries, edited by Anthony F Heath and Yaël Brinbaum
294 pages
978-0-19-726574-1  hbk    2014 volume available from OUP     £65.00


195. The Articulation of Power in Medieval Iberia and the Maghrib, edited by Amira K Bennison
282 pages
978-0-19-726569-7  hbk    2014 volume available from OUP     £60.00


194. Strings Attached: AIDS and the Rise of Transnational Connections in Africa, edited by Nadine Beckmann, Alessandro Gusman & Catrine Shroff
374 pages
978-0-19-726568-0  hbk    2014 volume available from OUP     £75.00


193. China-India: Pathways of Economic and Social Development, edited by Delia Davin & Barbara Harriss-White
236 pages
978-0-19-726567-3  hbk    2014 volume available from OUP     £50.00 


192. Understanding Human Dignity, edited by Christopher McCrudden 
782 pages 
978-0-19-726564-2    hbk    2013, reprinted 2014 volume available from OUP      £110.00 
978-0-19-726582-6    pbk   2014, reprinted 2015 volume available from OUP     £40.00


191. Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia, edited by Robert Parker 
256 pages 
978-0-19-726563-5 hbk 2013 (from 2015, manufactured on demand) volume available from OUP £60.00


190. Liberal World Orders, edited by Tim Dunne & Trine Flockhart 
316 pages 
978-0-19-726552-9 hbk 2013, repr 2013 (from 2017 manufactured on demand) volume available from OUP £65.00


189. Continuity and Innovation in Medieval and Modern Philosophy: Knowledge, Mind, and Language, edited by John Marenbon
142 pages 
978-0-19-726549-9 hbk 2013 volume available from OUP £35.00


188. Ancient Egyptian Literature: Theory and Practice, edited by Roland Enmarch & Verena M Lepper 
316 pages
978-0-19-726542-0 hbk 2013 (from 2014, manufactured on demand) volume available from OUP £75.00


187. From Plunder to Preservation: Britain and the Heritage of Empire, c.1800-1940, edited by Astrid Swenson & Peter Mandler 
318 pages 
978-0-19-726541-3 hbk 2013 volume available from OUP £70.00


186. Natural Law and Toleration in the Early Enlightenment, edited by Jon Parkin & Timothy Stanton
254 pages 
978-0-19-726540-6 hbk 2013 volume available from OUP £60.00


185. Red Strains: Music and Communism Outside the Communist Bloc, edited by Robert Adlington
328 pages
978-0-19-726539-0 hbk 2013 volume available from OUP £70.00


184. The Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy: France from Old Regime to Revolution, edited by Julian Swann & Joël Félix
352 pages
978-0-19-726538-3 hbk 2013 volume available from OUP £70.00


183. The United Kingdom’s Statutory Bill of Rights: Constitutional and Comparative Perspectives, edited by Roger Masterman & Ian Leigh 
376 pages 
978-0-19-726537-6 hbk 2013 volume available from OUP £75.00


182. Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History, edited by Keith Breckenridge & Simon Szreter 
552 pages 
978-0-19-726531-4 hbk 2012 volume available from OUP £100.00 
[British Academy Review article by Simon Szreter & Keith Breckenridge]

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