Obituary
Nora Elizabeth Mary Boyce
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2777056 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Almut Hintze (0000-0002-0913-6137, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 143-149 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0041977x07000055 |
| OpenAlex | W2168185835 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
aged 85, was a leading authority on Zoroastrianism, the pre-Islamic religion of Iran. Born on 2 August 1920 in Darjeeling, India, she was educated in England first at Wimbledon High School and Cheltenham Ladies's College, and then went up to Newnham College, Cambridge. There she read English for Part I of the Tripos before switching to Archaeology and Anthropology for Part II. She graduated with a double first in 1943. During the Second World War, while carrying out war work in villages near the city, she started to learn Persian with Professor V. Minorsky of SOAS (which had been evacuated from London to Cambridge during
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Culte, Mythe et Cosmologie dans l'Iran ancien
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Zoroaster's Own Contribution
Zoroastrianism
The Manichaean Hymn-Cycles in Parthian
The State of Old Avestan Scholarship
A Reader in Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |