Prehistorian at Cambridge

J. Maxwell Atkinson and Paul Drew. Order in Court: The Organization of Verbal Interaction in Judicial Settings. Atlantic Highlands, N. J.: Humanities Press, 1979. ix + 275 pp. Notes, references, and index. (Published in Oxford Socio‐Legal Studies Series, J. Maxwell Atkinson, Donald R. Harris, and R. M. Hartwell, general eds.) $30.00.     

简评阿兰·贝克的《地理学与历史学——架起跨越鸿沟的桥》

历史地理学诞生在西方,西方学者对其理论的探讨也早于我国学者。在20世纪上半叶,学者曾多次讨论历史地理学的性质问题。英国著名历史地理学家达比(H.C.Darby)先生也数次撰文阐述,其思想深刻影响了我国学界,他所认为的历史地理学属于地理学的思想至今在我国还占主流地位。与我国学界关于历史地理学理论的热烈探讨一样①,论述历史地理学理论的文章在西方更是多不胜数,著作也有不少,理论层出不穷。但敢于以“地理学与历史学”作为著作题目进行宏观阐述的学者却非常少。1901年,乔治(H.B.George)先生以一个历史学家的视角出版《地理学与历史学…     

Commercializing Science in Europe: The Cambridge Biotechnology Cluster

The article examines the variety of linkages firms have established with university science. These include using universities as a source of ideas for start-ups, scientific collaboration between firms and laboratories, the role of scientists on the scientific advisory boards of firms, and the role of universities in supplying firms with a labour market for talented scientists. These linkages are plentiful across Cambridge area biotechnology firms. However, and perhaps surprisingly, our evidence shows that a key actor, the University of Cambridge does not dominate the scientific linkages of the area's firms. A large percentage of Cambridge's firms do not derive from its university. The majority of scientific collaborations are not with University of Cambridge laboratories, nor do Cambridge scientists dominate the scientific advisory boards of firms. Moreover, the majority of scientists within area biotechnology firms appear not to have left University of Cambridge laboratories to move to industry.     

The Parliaments of Cambridge

Re-examination of St-Brieuc and Wilburton metalworking shows they cannot align, and this requires a general reordering of the Atlantic Late Bronze Age sequence. They have many differences, principally sword types. St-Brieuc always has U-butt Kerguérou (Limehouse in Britain) swords, whereas Wilburton always has Wilburton swords. Wilburton must follow St-Brieuc, so a new Limehouse stage is inserted between Penard and Wilburton, to align with St-Brieuc. The combination of U-butt sword and straight-mouthed chape of St-Brieuc and Limehouse is consistent throughout Atlantic Europe. So too are the characteristics of Wilburton metalworking which followed, and its Brécy equivalent in France. In Britain the contemporaneity of Wallington and Wilburton is reaffirmed. Both played a part in the emergence of Ewart Park 1 metal-working, with South Yorkshire/Lincolnshire a vital contact zone. The Atlantic Late Bronze Age unravelled after Wilburton. Iberia effectively dropped out after Huelva, diverted by Phoenician influences. Links between Britain and Atlantic France declined, and their sword and axe preferences diverged. The various weapon complexes of Ewart Park 1 in Britain have no equivalents in France. Ordering and sub-dividing this final phase of the LBA has always been imponderable but has been helped by the identification of St-Philbert (Huelva) swords, which show what are Ewart Park 1 hoards in Britain and contemporary Longueville hoards in France. They also make clear that the Carp's tongue complex must be relegated to the last part of the Late Bronze Age.     

Two Cambridge Orientalists on Athos

Abstract

This essay considers the accounts of Athos by Joseph Dacre Carlyle, who visited Athos in 1801, and by John Palmer who was there four years later. The men were successive holders of the chair of Arabic at Cambridge. The study examines some of their impressions of Athos and compares their experiences with the well-known account of Philip Hunt who was Carlyle's travelling companion. Appendices give tables of the numbers of monks in the Athonite houses; Palmer's expenses; and a brief discussion of some related documents.