Lynette R. Muir

Lynette Ross Muir (30 December 1930 – 2 July 2007) was an English scholar of medieval literature. She was a reader in the department of French language and literature at the University of Leeds.

Lynette Ross Muir was born on 30 December 1930 in Eastbourne, England.[1] She received a BA with first-class honours from the University of Exeter in 1951 and a PhD from the University of London in 1956.[1]

In 1975, Muir was central to co-ordinating the staging of 42 pageants from the York Mystery Plays on the Leeds campus.[2] From 1977 to 1982, Muir was the director of Leeds's Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies: in 1978, she oversaw a change in its name to Centre for Medieval Studies and procured dedicated space for the Centre for the first time in 1979.[3]

Muir died on 2 July 2007.[4]

Selected publications

Academic
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  • Liturgy and Drama in the Anglo-Norman Adam. Blackwell; Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature. 1973. ISBN 0-631-15520-1. OCLC 3074336.
  • Literature and Society in Medieval France: The Mirror and the Image, 1100–1500. St. Martin's Press. 1985. ISBN 0-312-48748-7. OCLC 12107409.
  • The Biblical Drama of Medieval Europe. Cambridge University Press. 1995. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511519697. ISBN 978-0-521-41291-9.
  • Love and Conflict in Medieval Drama: The Plays and Their Legacy. Cambridge University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-521-82756-0. OCLC 76935897.

Children's fiction
  • The Unicorn Window. 1961.
  • Nicholas and the Devils. 1985.
  • The Girls of St Cyr. 1994.

References
  1. May, Hal; Trosky, Susan M., eds. (1988). Contemporary Authors. Vol. 122. Gale. pp. 332–333. ISBN 0-8103-1922-5. ISSN 0010-7468. OCLC 23993115.
  2. "Mystery Plays at Leeds". University of Leeds. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  3. "Building a real centre: 1978–2003". University of Leeds. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  4. "Lynette Muir - full obituary and funeral address". University of Leeds. Archived from the original on 23 December 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
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