Legacy series

The Legacy series of essay collections was produced by Oxford University Press, from the early 1920s. It was aimed at Workers' Educational Association and university extension courses, and was an initiative of John Johnson.[1]

The more recent Appraisal volumes move away from general surveys, to include articles with a focus on the history of relevant literary topics.[2]

Title Year Editor Comment
The Legacy of Greece1921Richard Winn LivingstoneFollowed by The Pageant of Greece and The Mission of Greece, both also edited by Livingstone.
The Legacy of Rome1923Cyril Bailey[3]
The Legacy of the Middle Ages1926Charles George Crump
Ernest Fraser Jacob
The Legacy of Israel1927Edwyn Bevan
Charles Joseph Singer[4]
The Legacy of Islam1931Thomas Walker Arnold
Alfred Guillaume
2nd edition 1974, edited by Joseph Schacht and Clifford Edmund Bosworth
The Legacy of India1942Geoffrey Theodore GarrattAuthors: Hugh George Rawlinson, Frederick William Thomas
The Legacy of Egypt1942Stephen Ranulph Kingdon Glanville2nd edition 1972, edited by J. R. Harris
The Legacy of Persia1953Arthur John Arberry
The Legacy of China1964Raymond Dawson
The Legacy of Greece: A New Appraisal1981Moses Finley
The Legacy of Rome: A New Appraisal[5]1983Richard Jenkyns
The Legacy of Mesopotamia1998Stephanie Dalley

Notes

  1. Peter H. Sutcliffe (1978). The Oxford University Press: An Informal History. Clarendon Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-19-951084-9.
  2. Lorna Hardwick (15 May 2003). Reception Studies. Cambridge University Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-19-852865-4.
  3. Griffin, Jasper. "Bailey, Cyril". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30522. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. McConnell, Anita. "Singer, Charles Joseph". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36110. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. Richard Jenkyns (1992). The Legacy of Rome: A New Appraisal. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821917-0.
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