Dominica Legge
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| Mary Dominica Legge | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 March 1905 Bayswater |
| Died | 10 March 1986 Oxford |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
Professor (Mary) Dominica Legge (26 March 1905 – 10 March 1986) was a British scholar of the Anglo-Norman language.[1]
Life
Legge was born in Bayswater in 1905. Her grandfather was Professor James Legge, and her father James Granville Legge was the Director of Education in Liverpool.[1]
She was a scholar of the Anglo-Norman language. She was a founding member of the Anglo-Norman Text Society.[1]
Legge died in Oxford.
Works include
- Anglo-Norman letters and petitions from All Souls. Ms. 182, Oxford 1941
- Le Roman de Balain. A prose romance of the thirteenth century With an introduction by Eugène Vinaver, Manchester 1942
- Anglo-Norman in the cloisters. The influence of the orders upon Anglo-Norman literature, Edinburgh 1950
- Anglo-Norman Literature and its Background (Oxford, 1963)
- with Ruth J. Dean) The Rule of St. Benedict. A Norman prose version, Oxford 1964
- The significance of Anglo-Norman. Inaugural lecture, Edinburgh 1969
- "William the Marshal and Arthur of Brittany", Historical Research, volume 55, 1982
References
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