Roger Sherman Loomis (1887-1966) was an American scholar of Arthurian literature. He was a defender of the theory of Celtic origins of the Grail myth. He was Professor at Columbia University. 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. ... A Celtic cross incorporating the Celtic knotwork motif associated with later Celtic cultures Celtic mythology is the mythology of Celtic polytheism, the apparent religion of the Iron Age Celts. ... Grail redirects here. ... Columbia University is a private university in New York City. ...

Roger Sherman Loomis was the son of Henry Patterson Loomis, the great nephew of William Maxwell Evarts and the great-great grandson of American founding father Roger Sherman. William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818–February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman. ... Roger Sherman (April 19 (O.S.) = April 30 (N.S.), 1721 - July 23, 1793), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and a member of the committee which drafted it, a member of the committee that drafted the Articles of Confederation, and signed the United States Constitution...

Works

• Illustrations of Medieval Romance On Tiles From Chertsey Abbey (1916)
• Freshman Readings (1925)
• Celtic Myth and Arthurian Romance (1927)
• The Art of Writing Prose (1930) with Mabel Louise Robinson, Helen Hull and Paul Cavanaugh
• Models for Writing Prose (1931)
• The Romance of Tristram and Ysolt (1931) translator
• Arthurian Legends in Medieval Art (1938) with Laura Hibbard Loomis
• Introduction to Medieval Literature, Chiefly in England. Reading List and Bibliography (1939)
• Representative Medieval And Tudor Plays (1942) editor with Henry W. Wells
• The Fight for Freedom: College Reading in Wartime (1943) with Gabriel M. Liegey
• Modern English Readings (1945) editor with Donald Lemen Clark
• Medieval English Verse and Prose (1948) with Rudolph Willard
• Arthurian Tradition And Chretien De Troyes (1949)
• Wales and the Arthurian Legend (1956)
• Medieval Romances (1957) editor with Laura Hibbard Loomis
• Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, A Collaborative History (1959) editor
• The Grail: From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol (1963)
• The Development of Arthurian Romance (1963)
• A Mirror of Chaucer's World (1965)
• The Arthurian Material in the Chronicles: Especially Those in Great Britain and France (1973) expansion of Robert Huntington Fletcher's 1906 book
• Lanzelet (2005) translator Thomas Kerth, notes by Loomis and Kenneth G. T. Webster

Reference

• Studies In Medieval Literature: A Memorial Collection of Essays (1970)