Andrew Huxley
Biographic Data
| ID | 582006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Huxley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Huxley |
| SIGNATURE | HUXLEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mr Houghton and Dr Führer: A Scholarly Vendetta and its Consequences
Between 1895 and 1921, the early history of Burma rested on a false premise: that the three oldest inscriptions found in Burma were genuine. Who forged these inscriptions? Why did they do so? By whom were the forgeries exposed? The answers to these questions prompt troubling thoughts about how state power impinged on the autonomous pursuit of knowledge during the high noon of the British Empire
Dr Führer's Wanderjahre: The Early Career of a Victorian Archaeologist
The Rev. Dr A.A. Führer lived to the age of seventy-seven. Herein is examined his first forty years. Trained as an Oriental Linguist, Führer eventually found employment as a field archaeologist. Three years after his appointment, the Archaeological Survey of India entered the worst crisis of its existence. Führer reacted in ways incompatible with scholarly integrity. It remains to be seen whether he committed further transgressions and or forgeri…
Hpo Hlaing on Buddhist law
This article introduces an English version (translator unknown) of a Burmese law report: Judge Hpo Hlaing's ruling in Ma Hla v. Ma Wa, delivered in Mandalay in 1877. The judgement contains a paragraph dealing with the sources of Buddhist Law which appears to be a riposte to work published earlier that year in Lower Burma. That the judge was Burma's leading political philosopher gives special resonance to his views on law. His list of five law rep…
Legal Transplants as Historical Data: Exemplum Birmanicum
A flurry of scholarly interest in Burmese legal history occurred between 1882 and 1885. Before 1882 it had been assumed that Burma had its own distinctive, Buddhist, legal tradition. A new theory was announced: that Burmese Law was a late offshoot of the Sanskrit legal literature typified by Manusmrti. I shall argue that the new theory was not supported by persuasive evidence. The new theory, I suggest, partook less of scholarship and more of pro…
The Aphorismi and a Discourse of Laws: Bacon, Cavendish, and Hobbes 1615–1620
Attention is drawn to five parallel passages as between Francis Bacon's unpublished Aphorismi de jure gentium maiore sive de fontibus justiciae et juris and A discourse of laws , which was published anonymously in 1620. It is suggested that around 14 per cent of A discourse consists of unacknowledged translations from Bacon's Latin. Questions are raised as to when, where, and why A discourse was composed. These questions bear on, though fail to r…
An Antinomian Allegory
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Religion, Law and Tradition: Comparative Studies in Religious Law
Introduction Andrew Huxley Chapter 1. Judaism Bernard Jackson Chapter 2. Religious claims about Biblical Law Calum Carmichael Chapter 3. Canon Law Silvio Ferrari Chapter 4. Islam Lynn Welchman & Ian Edge Chapter 5. Hinduism: Once religious, always religious? Werner Menski Chapter 6. Buddhist Law Andrew Huxley Chapter 7. Law and religion in Han China Randall Peerenboom Chapter 8. Jewish and Roman Philosophies of Law David Daube Chapter 9. Religiou…
Positivists and Buddhists: The Rise and Fall of Anglo-Burmese Ecclesiastical Law
This article describes and compares English and Burmese approaches to the legal establishment of religion. Between 1886 and 1942 the two approaches crossbred to produce a body of case law known as Buddhist ecclesiastical law. However, after 1920 the colonial government radically changed its policy toward Buddhism. The repercussions of this change continue to affect Burma
A Burmese tract on kingship: Political theory in the 1782 manuscript of Manugye
In 1782, the year of King Badon's coronation, someone close to the Burmese palace wrote a legal manuscript. This paper gives a translation of and commentary on that section of the manuscript dealing with kingship. By tracing the sources of the material used, it contributes to the debate about the sources of Burmese political philosophy. Was precolonial Burmese political thought primarily Hindu, primarily Buddhist, primarily Indian or none of the …
The Village Knows Best: Social Organization in an Eighteenth-Century Burmese Law Code
Manugye, compiled at the start of Burma's Konbaung dynasty, has become the best known of the forty or so surviving Burmese dhammathat, or law-texts. This paper analyses the collection of judgement tales that makes up the first volume of Manugye. These nineteen judgement tales are set within a frame story that derives in part from the Pāli Buddhist scriptures. Each of the other nineteen tales is traced to its source in the Pāli scriptures and vari…
The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet. Rebecca Redwood French
The Traditions of Mahosadha: Legal reasoning from Northern Thailand
Twenty years ago hardly any legal texts from the Middle Mekong region were known. Now more than a 150 legal manuscripts have been borrowed from monastery book-chests, cleaned and microfilmed. Only one of these discoveries has been translated into a non-Thai language, but that is a substantial and important text. Aroonrut Wichienkeeo's and Gehan Wijeyewardene's Laws of King Mangrai translates a manuscript from 'The Elephant Supported Temple' in Na…
Shylock's bad karma: The buddhist approach to law
When Manu met Mah?sammata
The Buddha and the social contract
The post-canonical adventures of Mah?sammata
Economic Loss in Negligence — The 1989 Cases
Science and Politics: The Blackett Memorial Lecture
Tribute is paid to Lord Blackett - who, like the Author, was President of the Royal Society - as a scientist, as a research leader during World War II and in his capacity as an adviser on science in India. Next, the distinctions amI analogies between science and politics are discussed; pure, applied and strategic research are defined; and the ambivalence between scientists and politicians is pointed out. Science for the Third World is touched on,…
Grandfather and grandson
I wish that I could have told you of personal reminiscences of Thomas Henry Huxley, as many grandsons can of their grandfathers, but I was not born until more than twenty years after his death. For one thing, he did not live to a very great age— he was 70 when he died in 1895— and for another, I am the younger son of my father’s second marriage. My half-brother Julian, the eldest of my father’s first family and just thirty years older than myself…
Positivists and Buddhists: The Rise and Fall of Anglo-Burmese Ecclesiastical Law
This article describes and compares English and Burmese approaches to the legal establishment of religion. Between 1886 and 1942 the two approaches crossbred to produce a body of case law known as Buddhist ecclesiastical law. However, after 1920 the colonial government radically changed its policy toward Buddhism. The repercussions of this change continue to affect Burma
The Buddha and the social contract
The post-canonical adventures of Mah?sammata
When Manu met Mah?sammata
Legal Transplants as Historical Data: Exemplum Birmanicum
A flurry of scholarly interest in Burmese legal history occurred between 1882 and 1885. Before 1882 it had been assumed that Burma had its own distinctive, Buddhist, legal tradition. A new theory was announced: that Burmese Law was a late offshoot of the Sanskrit legal literature typified by Manusmrti. I shall argue that the new theory was not supported by persuasive evidence. The new theory, I suggest, partook less of scholarship and more of pro…
Dr Führer's Wanderjahre: The Early Career of a Victorian Archaeologist
The Rev. Dr A.A. Führer lived to the age of seventy-seven. Herein is examined his first forty years. Trained as an Oriental Linguist, Führer eventually found employment as a field archaeologist. Three years after his appointment, the Archaeological Survey of India entered the worst crisis of its existence. Führer reacted in ways incompatible with scholarly integrity. It remains to be seen whether he committed further transgressions and or forgeri…
The Traditions of Mahosadha: Legal reasoning from Northern Thailand
Twenty years ago hardly any legal texts from the Middle Mekong region were known. Now more than a 150 legal manuscripts have been borrowed from monastery book-chests, cleaned and microfilmed. Only one of these discoveries has been translated into a non-Thai language, but that is a substantial and important text. Aroonrut Wichienkeeo's and Gehan Wijeyewardene's Laws of King Mangrai translates a manuscript from 'The Elephant Supported Temple' in Na…
Grandfather and grandson
I wish that I could have told you of personal reminiscences of Thomas Henry Huxley, as many grandsons can of their grandfathers, but I was not born until more than twenty years after his death. For one thing, he did not live to a very great age— he was 70 when he died in 1895— and for another, I am the younger son of my father’s second marriage. My half-brother Julian, the eldest of my father’s first family and just thirty years older than myself…
Science and Politics: The Blackett Memorial Lecture
Tribute is paid to Lord Blackett - who, like the Author, was President of the Royal Society - as a scientist, as a research leader during World War II and in his capacity as an adviser on science in India. Next, the distinctions amI analogies between science and politics are discussed; pure, applied and strategic research are defined; and the ambivalence between scientists and politicians is pointed out. Science for the Third World is touched on,…
Economic Loss in Negligence — The 1989 Cases
Shylock's bad karma: The buddhist approach to law
When Manu met Mah?sammata
The Buddha and the social contract
The post-canonical adventures of Mah?sammata
The Village Knows Best: Social Organization in an Eighteenth-Century Burmese Law Code
Manugye, compiled at the start of Burma's Konbaung dynasty, has become the best known of the forty or so surviving Burmese dhammathat, or law-texts. This paper analyses the collection of judgement tales that makes up the first volume of Manugye. These nineteen judgement tales are set within a frame story that derives in part from the Pāli Buddhist scriptures. Each of the other nineteen tales is traced to its source in the Pāli scriptures and vari…
The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet. Rebecca Redwood French
The Traditions of Mahosadha: Legal reasoning from Northern Thailand
Twenty years ago hardly any legal texts from the Middle Mekong region were known. Now more than a 150 legal manuscripts have been borrowed from monastery book-chests, cleaned and microfilmed. Only one of these discoveries has been translated into a non-Thai language, but that is a substantial and important text. Aroonrut Wichienkeeo's and Gehan Wijeyewardene's Laws of King Mangrai translates a manuscript from 'The Elephant Supported Temple' in Na…
Positivists and Buddhists: The Rise and Fall of Anglo-Burmese Ecclesiastical Law
This article describes and compares English and Burmese approaches to the legal establishment of religion. Between 1886 and 1942 the two approaches crossbred to produce a body of case law known as Buddhist ecclesiastical law. However, after 1920 the colonial government radically changed its policy toward Buddhism. The repercussions of this change continue to affect Burma
A Burmese tract on kingship: Political theory in the 1782 manuscript of Manugye
In 1782, the year of King Badon's coronation, someone close to the Burmese palace wrote a legal manuscript. This paper gives a translation of and commentary on that section of the manuscript dealing with kingship. By tracing the sources of the material used, it contributes to the debate about the sources of Burmese political philosophy. Was precolonial Burmese political thought primarily Hindu, primarily Buddhist, primarily Indian or none of the …
An Antinomian Allegory
.
Religion, Law and Tradition: Comparative Studies in Religious Law
Introduction Andrew Huxley Chapter 1. Judaism Bernard Jackson Chapter 2. Religious claims about Biblical Law Calum Carmichael Chapter 3. Canon Law Silvio Ferrari Chapter 4. Islam Lynn Welchman & Ian Edge Chapter 5. Hinduism: Once religious, always religious? Werner Menski Chapter 6. Buddhist Law Andrew Huxley Chapter 7. Law and religion in Han China Randall Peerenboom Chapter 8. Jewish and Roman Philosophies of Law David Daube Chapter 9. Religiou…
The Aphorismi and a Discourse of Laws: Bacon, Cavendish, and Hobbes 1615–1620
Attention is drawn to five parallel passages as between Francis Bacon's unpublished Aphorismi de jure gentium maiore sive de fontibus justiciae et juris and A discourse of laws , which was published anonymously in 1620. It is suggested that around 14 per cent of A discourse consists of unacknowledged translations from Bacon's Latin. Questions are raised as to when, where, and why A discourse was composed. These questions bear on, though fail to r…
Legal Transplants as Historical Data: Exemplum Birmanicum
A flurry of scholarly interest in Burmese legal history occurred between 1882 and 1885. Before 1882 it had been assumed that Burma had its own distinctive, Buddhist, legal tradition. A new theory was announced: that Burmese Law was a late offshoot of the Sanskrit legal literature typified by Manusmrti. I shall argue that the new theory was not supported by persuasive evidence. The new theory, I suggest, partook less of scholarship and more of pro…
Dr Führer's Wanderjahre: The Early Career of a Victorian Archaeologist
The Rev. Dr A.A. Führer lived to the age of seventy-seven. Herein is examined his first forty years. Trained as an Oriental Linguist, Führer eventually found employment as a field archaeologist. Three years after his appointment, the Archaeological Survey of India entered the worst crisis of its existence. Führer reacted in ways incompatible with scholarly integrity. It remains to be seen whether he committed further transgressions and or forgeri…
Hpo Hlaing on Buddhist law
This article introduces an English version (translator unknown) of a Burmese law report: Judge Hpo Hlaing's ruling in Ma Hla v. Ma Wa, delivered in Mandalay in 1877. The judgement contains a paragraph dealing with the sources of Buddhist Law which appears to be a riposte to work published earlier that year in Lower Burma. That the judge was Burma's leading political philosopher gives special resonance to his views on law. His list of five law rep…
Mr Houghton and Dr Führer: A Scholarly Vendetta and its Consequences
Between 1895 and 1921, the early history of Burma rested on a false premise: that the three oldest inscriptions found in Burma were genuine. Who forged these inscriptions? Why did they do so? By whom were the forgeries exposed? The answers to these questions prompt troubling thoughts about how state power impinged on the autonomous pursuit of knowledge during the high noon of the British Empire
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