Mary Dominica Legge

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Mary Dominica Legge (March 26, 1905 , † December 10, 1986 ) was a British Romance philologist .

Life

Dominica Legge, granddaughter of the Oxford sinologist James Legge , was from 1923 at Somerville College , Oxford, a student of Mildred K. Pope , Paul Studer and Edwin Waters . She taught from 1938 to 1942 in London, 1942 in Dundee and from 1943 in Edinburgh, there from 1953 as a reader and from 1968 to 1973 on a personal chair for Anglo-Norman Studies. In 1974 she was accepted into the British Academy . 1965 you had the Oxford University the honorary doctorate awarded.

Dominica Legge's life's work, exploring the Anglo-Norman language , culminated in her book Anglo-Norman Literature and its Background (Oxford 1963).

Works

  • (Ed.) Anglo-Norman letters and petitions from All Souls. Ms. 182, Oxford 1941
  • (Ed.) 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
  • (Ed. Together with Ruth J. Dean) The Rule of St. Benedict. A Norman prose version, Oxford 1964
  • The significance of Anglo-Norman. Inaugural lecture delivered on Tuesday 26th November 1968, Edinburgh 1969

literature

  • Graham Runnalls (1937-2008) in: Marche Romane. Cahiers de l'Association des romanistes de l'Université de Liège 29, 1979, pp. 115–117
  • Marjorie Chibnall in: Proceedings of the British Academy 74, 1988, pp. 389-403
  • Obituary in: Speculum 62, 1987
  • Rebecca Posner: Romance Linguistics in Oxford 1840-1940, in: Lingua et Traditio. History of linguistics and recent philologies. Festschrift for Hans Helmut Christmann for his 65th birthday , ed. by Richard Baum, Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft, Tübingen 1994, pp. 375–383
  • Marjorie Chibnall : Mary Dominica Legge, 1905-1986 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 74 , 1988, pp. 389-403 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

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personal data
SURNAME Legge, Mary Dominica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Legge, Dominica; Legge, M. Dominica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romance philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1905
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1986