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96: 17: 78:, a post which she held until 1998. She was Chair of the Faculty of English from 1993 to 1995, and helped the Faculty prepare for its first ever HEFCE teaching quality assessment. In 1998 she resigned the Cambridge Chair and took up a post as Notre Dame Professor of English at the 250:, edited with a lengthy Introduction by Mark David Rasmussen analysing their contribution to medieval literary studies. Excerpts from her published work are frequently included in Norton Critical Editions and similar anthologies. 443: 210:
Mann's work has always had a strongly comparative character, bringing together texts in several medieval languages. Her dominant interests are the literature of fourteenth-century England, especially
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Mann was born in York, where her father was engaged in war work, but brought up in Sunderland, Co. Durham, where she was educated at the Bede Grammar School for Girls. In 1961 she won a place at
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in Oxford, but in 1967 she moved to Cambridge and eventually transferred to a Cambridge PhD, which she completed in 1971. She held a Research Fellowship at
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Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire: The Literature of Social Classes and the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
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for Penguin Classics (2005). She produced an edition and translation of the Latin beast epic
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The Text in the Community: Essays on Medieval Works, Manuscripts, Authors and Readers
287:(Harvester-Wheatsheaf Feminist Readings series), (Hemel Hempstead, 1991); revised as 214:, and medieval beast literature in Latin, French, and English. Her books include 315:, ed. and trans., Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 26 (Cambridge, Mass., 2013) 70:
at Canterbury. In 1972 she returned to Cambridge as an Official Fellow of
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A full bibliography up to 2011 is published in Mann's festschrift,
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Ysengrimus: Text with Introduction, Translation and Commentary
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Life in Words: Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory
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Life in Words: Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory
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From Aesop to Reynard: Beast Literature in Medieval Britain
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Professors of Medieval and Renaissance English (Cambridge)
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Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English (Cambridge)
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