For the baseball player, see Lewis Thorpe (baseball).
Lewis Guy Melville Thorpe FRSA FRHistS (5 November 1913 – 10 October 1977)[1][2] was a British philologist and translator. He was married to the Italian scholar and lexicographer Barbara Reynolds.
After service in Italy in the Second World War, Lewis Thorpe joined the staff of the University of Nottingham 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.
Thorpe was born in Croydon.[3] He died in Nottingham in 1977.[1]
^ abUK and Ireland, Obituary Index, 2004-2018
^England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Lewis Guy Melville Thorpe FRSA FRHistS (5 November 1913 – 10 October 1977) was a British philologist and translator. He was married to the Italian scholar...
having ordained him a priest at Westminster 10 days before. According to LewisThorpe, "There is no evidence that he ever visited his see, and indeed the wars...
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episodes appear in many later adaptations of Geoffrey's account. As LewisThorpe notes, Merlin disappears from the narrative subsequently. He does not...
example from section iv.20 (from the Penguin Classics translation by LewisThorpe): Parishes were apportioned off, Deira being placed under the Metropolitan...
James Francis Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as "Bright Path"; May 22 or 28, 1887 – March 28, 1953) was an American athlete and Olympic...
17f Gregory of Tours, Decem Libri Historiarum, II.27; translated by LewisThorpe, History of the Franks (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974), p. 139 Wolfram...
the Franks. Trans. by LewisThorpe. London: Penguin Books, 1974. Gregory of Tours. The History of the Franks. Trans. by LewisThorpe. London: Penguin Books...
Altertumskunde Online. Gregory of Tours, The History of the Franks, LewisThorpe translation, Penguin. Section II.9. p.125. For the Latin see dmgh edition...
The Journey Through Wales and The Description of Wales. Translated by: LewisThorpe. (1978 edition). London: Penguin Books Ltd. Itinerarium Cambriae, (1191)...
cited in Gregory of Tours, Decem Libri Historiarum, II.8; translated by LewisThorpe, History of the Franks (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974), pp. 118f John...
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Gerald of Wales Description of Wales and the Journey Through Wales trans LewisThorpe, Penguin, various editions "Early Modern Letters Online". Bodleian Library...
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Brut y Brenhinedd Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniæ, tr. LewisThorpe, Geoffrey of Monmouth. The History of the Kings of Britain. Harmondsworth...
Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain, translated by LewisThorpe, Penguin, 1966 Henry Lewis (ed.), Brut Dingestow (University of Wales Press, 1942)...
277 Gregory of Tours, Decem Libri Historiarum, III.10; translated by LewisThorpe, History of the Franks (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974), pp. 170f. Wood...
website, Bretons History of the Kings of Britain 3.19 at Wikisource. LewisThorpe's translation for Penguin Classics (p. 105) gives two kings preceding...
of Wales, The Journey Through Wales and The Description of Wales tr. LewisThorpe. Harmondsworth: Penguin (1978) "Princess Nest". "Nesta - Irish Biography"...
Archived from the original on 24 January 2009. Retrieved 7 August 2011. "LewisThorpe statistics". Baseball-Reference. Archived from the original on 31 October...
Gregory of Tours, Decem Libri Historiarum, IV.27, 28; translated by LewisThorpe, History of the Franks (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974), pp. 221f. Wood...
Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain, translated by LewisThorpe, 1973; Peter Roberts (trans), The Chronicle of the Kings of Britain,...
Press, 1982). Gregory of Tours. A History of the Franks. Translated by LewisThorpe. London: Penguin Books, 1974. Dailey, E.T. Queens, Consorts, Concubines:...
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