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词条 Dominica Legge
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Professor Mary Dominica Legge, FBA (26 March 1905 – 10 March 1986), known as Dominica Legge 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 and was taught by Mildred Pope at Somerville College, Oxford.[1] She was also one of the first members of the Somerville College Boat Club. She was a founding member of the Anglo-Norman Text Society.[2] She was Professor of French (Anglo-Norman Studies) at the University of Edinburgh, 1968-1973 and Professor Emerita after her retirement. In 1974, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[3]

Legge died in Oxford on 10 December 1986.

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

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/works-on-paper/related-person-63320-1.aspx|title=Mary Dominica Legge|website=National Museums Liverpool|access-date=24 November 2018}}
2. ^{{cite book|author=Jane Chance|title=Women Medievalists and the Academy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5QrnjT2NT5MC&pg=PA613|year=2005|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-20750-2|pages=613–616}}
3. ^‘LEGGE, Prof. (Mary) Dominica’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 23 April 2017
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