Description:Chapters: Elizabeth Rawson, Ann Lambton, Susan Haack, Rosemary Murray, Jean Thomas, Jenny Teichman, Sarah A. Radcliffe. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Elizabeth D. Rawson (13 April 1934 10 December 1988) was a classical scholar known primarily for her work in the intellectual history of the Roman Republic and her biography of Cicero. Rawson was an early Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge (1967-80) and subsequently (1980-1988) Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. She had been a Rome Scholar 195759. In 1988, Rawson was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. She died that same year in China after one term spent teaching at Nankai University, at the age of 54. She bequeathed her personal library to New Hall, where it is available in a reading area as the Rawson Collection. Rawson's collected papers, published under the title Roman Culture and Society (1991), explored the "workings of human politics and society, historical thinking at Rome, and literary and cultural criticism," dealing mainly with the themes of historiography and antiquarianism. The collection comprises 31 "substantial" articles written in a 20-year period, during which time she also published three major books and contributed to standard reference works in her field. "Held up by ill-health until 1968," wrote classical scholar T.P. Wiseman, "Elizabeth Rawson started writing late; but once she did start, she had a great deal to say about a great many different things." In regard to her methodology, Rawson remarked that "a historical generalisation means nothing, is totally empty, without the concrete details from which it emerges and to which it lends significance." She was criticized as "hostile to 'ideas'," and avoided theory. Wiseman had this assess...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2194296We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fellows of New Hall, Cambridge: Elizabeth Rawson, Ann Lambton, Susan Haack, Rosemary Murray, Jean Thomas, Jenny Teichman, Sarah A. Radcliffe. To get started finding Fellows of New Hall, Cambridge: Elizabeth Rawson, Ann Lambton, Susan Haack, Rosemary Murray, Jean Thomas, Jenny Teichman, Sarah A. Radcliffe, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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32
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2010
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1158381123
Fellows of New Hall, Cambridge: Elizabeth Rawson, Ann Lambton, Susan Haack, Rosemary Murray, Jean Thomas, Jenny Teichman, Sarah A. Radcliffe
Description: Chapters: Elizabeth Rawson, Ann Lambton, Susan Haack, Rosemary Murray, Jean Thomas, Jenny Teichman, Sarah A. Radcliffe. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Elizabeth D. Rawson (13 April 1934 10 December 1988) was a classical scholar known primarily for her work in the intellectual history of the Roman Republic and her biography of Cicero. Rawson was an early Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge (1967-80) and subsequently (1980-1988) Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. She had been a Rome Scholar 195759. In 1988, Rawson was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. She died that same year in China after one term spent teaching at Nankai University, at the age of 54. She bequeathed her personal library to New Hall, where it is available in a reading area as the Rawson Collection. Rawson's collected papers, published under the title Roman Culture and Society (1991), explored the "workings of human politics and society, historical thinking at Rome, and literary and cultural criticism," dealing mainly with the themes of historiography and antiquarianism. The collection comprises 31 "substantial" articles written in a 20-year period, during which time she also published three major books and contributed to standard reference works in her field. "Held up by ill-health until 1968," wrote classical scholar T.P. Wiseman, "Elizabeth Rawson started writing late; but once she did start, she had a great deal to say about a great many different things." In regard to her methodology, Rawson remarked that "a historical generalisation means nothing, is totally empty, without the concrete details from which it emerges and to which it lends significance." She was criticized as "hostile to 'ideas'," and avoided theory. Wiseman had this assess...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2194296We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fellows of New Hall, Cambridge: Elizabeth Rawson, Ann Lambton, Susan Haack, Rosemary Murray, Jean Thomas, Jenny Teichman, Sarah A. Radcliffe. To get started finding Fellows of New Hall, Cambridge: Elizabeth Rawson, Ann Lambton, Susan Haack, Rosemary Murray, Jean Thomas, Jenny Teichman, Sarah A. Radcliffe, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.