FRSA
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FRHistS (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.
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
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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 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
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, fils de Marques le Sénéchal''. 1950.
*''Le roman de Laurin: text of MS B. N. F. fr. 22548''. Cambridge: Heffer, 1960.
*''
Guido Farina
Guido Farina (1896–1957) was an Italian painter.
Biography
He was born in Verona. He enrolled at the Cignaroli Academy in Verona in 1910 and made his debut in 1918 at an exhibition held by the city’s Pro Assistenza Civica organisation. He was ...
, 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
Geoffrey of Monmouth ( la, Galfridus Monemutensis, Galfridus Arturus, cy, Gruffudd ap Arthur, Sieffre o Fynwy; 1095 – 1155) was a British cleric from Monmouth, Wales and one of the major figures in the development of British historiograph ...
, ''
The History of the Kings of Britain
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''. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966 (revised, 1976).
* Einhard and
Notker the Stammerer
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, ''Two lives of Charlemagne''. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969.
**Einhard the Frank, '' The Life of Charlemagne''. 1970.
*
Gregory of Tours
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, ''The History of the Franks''. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.
*
Gerald of Wales
Gerald of Wales ( la, Giraldus Cambrensis; cy, Gerallt Gymro; french: Gerald de Barri; ) was a Cambro-Norman priest and historian. As a royal clerk to the king and two archbishops, he travelled widely and wrote extensively. He studied and taugh ...