FRSA
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FRHistS
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(5 November 1913 – 10 October 1977)''UK and Ireland, Obituary Index, 2004-2018'' was a British philologist and translator. He was married to the Italian scholar and lexicographer
Barbara Reynolds
Eva Mary Barbara Reynolds (13 June 1914 – 29 April 2015) was an English scholar of Italian Studies, lexicographer and translator. She wrote and edited several books concerning Dorothy Sayers and was president of the Dorothy L. Sayers Soci ...
.
After service in
Italy
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in the
Second World War
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, Lewis Thorpe joined the staff of the
University of Nottingham
, mottoeng = A city is built on wisdom
, established = 1798 – teacher training college1881 – University College Nottingham1948 – university status
, type = Public
, chancellor ...
in 1946. He was Professor of French there from 1958 to 1977. He served as President of the British Branch of the
International Arthurian Society
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The j ...
and was a member of the
Marylebone Cricket Club
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.
Thorpe was born in
Croydon
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.''England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915'' He died in
Nottingham
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in 1977.
Publications
*''La France guerrière''. Penguin, 1945.
*''Le roman de Laurin, fils de Marques le Sénéchal''. 1950.
*''Le roman de Laurin: text of MS B. N. F. fr. 22548''. Cambridge: Heffer, 1960.
*'' Guido Farina, Painter of Verona, 1896-1957''. 1967 (with Barbara Reynolds).
* Heldris de Cornouaille, ''Le roman de Silence''. Cambridge: Heffer, 1972.
*''The Bayeux Tapestry and the Norman Invasion''. 1973.
As editor
*''Bulletin bibliographique'' of the International Arthurian Society
*''Nottingham Mediaeval Studies''
*''Nottingham French Studies''
As translator
*
Geoffrey of Monmouth
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, ''
The History of the Kings of Britain
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Einhard
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Gregory of Tours
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, ''The History of the Franks''. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.
*
Gerald of Wales
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