id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
en-wikipedia-org-6695		Mary Boyce - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1787	274	61	Nora Elisabeth Mary Boyce (2 August 1920 – 4 April 2006) was a British scholar of Iranian languages, and an authority on Zoroastrianism. She was Professor of Iranian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London.[1] The Royal Asiatic Society's annual Boyce Prize for outstanding contributions to the study of religion is named after her. In 1948, Boyce was appointed lecturer of Iranian Studies at SOAS, specialising in Manichaean, Zoroastrian Middle Persian and Parthian texts. In 1963–64, Boyce spent a research year among orthodox Zoroastrians of the 24 villages of Yazd, Iran. In the same year she published the first volume of her magnum opus, The History of Zoroastrianism, which appeared in the monograph series Handbuch der Orientalistik (Leiden:Brill). Mary Boyce article at Encyclopædia Iranica Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLK identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6695.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6695.txt