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Laura Hibbard Loomis

Laura Alandis Hibbard Loomis (June 18, 1883 – August 25, 1960) was an American literary scholar and college professor who specialized in medieval English literature.

Laura Hibbard Loomis
BornJune 18, 1883
Chicago, Illinois
DiedAugust 25, 1960
New York City
Occupation(s)Scholar, college professor
SpouseRoger Sherman Loomis
RelativesLouise Ropes Loomis (sister-in-law)

Early life edit

Laura Alandis Hibbard was born in Chicago, the daughter of Frederick Alan Hibbard and Margaret McMullen Hibbard. She graduated from Hyde Park High School there. She earned a bachelor's degree at Wellesley College in 1905, and a master's degree in 1908. She won Wellesley's Alice Freeman Palmer fellowship for research abroad in 1910.[1] She completed doctoral studies at the University of Chicago in 1916.[2][3]

Career edit

Hibbard taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1908 to 1916. From 1916 to 1943, she taught at Wellesley College, achieving full professor status in 1929, and held the Katharine Lee Bates Endowed Chair in English Literature. One of her students at Wellesley was Chinese writer Bing Xin.[4] She published her research in academic journals including Speculum, PMLA, Modern Philology, and Modern Language Notes.[5][6][7][8] She served a term as vice-president of the Modern Language Association.[9]

In retirement, Loomis moved to live and work full-time with her husband Roger Sherman Loomis in New York City (rather than commuting, as she had done for years),[10] and taught at Hunter College and at Columbia University.[2][3] In 1953, she arranged an exhibition of medieval paintings at the Morgan Library, and wrote a book to accompany the show.[11]

Publications edit

  • Three Middle English romances: King Horn, Havelok, Beves of Hampton (1911)[12]
  • Mediæval romance in England; a study of the sources and analogues of the non-cyclic metrical romances (1924, with Roger Sherman Loomis)[13]
  • "Arthur's Round Table" (1926)[14]
  • The table of the Last Supper in religious and secular iconography (1927)[15]
  • "Observations on the 'Pèlerinage Charlemagne'" (1928, with Tom Peete Cross)[7]
  • "Geoffrey of Monmouth and Stonehenge" (1930)[5]
  • "Sir Thopas and David and Goliath" (1936)[8]
  • Arthurian legends in medieval art (1938, with Roger Sherman Loomis)[16][17]
  • "Chaucer and the Breton Lays of the Auchinleck MS" (1941)[18]
  • "The Auchinleck Manuscript and a Possible London Bookshop of 1330-1340" (1942)[19]
  • "The Holy Relics of Charlemagne and King Athelstan: The Lances of Longinus and St. Mauricius" (1950)[20]
  • The passion lance relic and the war cry Montjoie in the Chanson de Roland and related texts (1950)[21]
  • "The Athelstan Gift Story: Its Influence on English Chronicles and Carolingian Romances" (1952)[22]
  • Medieval Vista (1953)[23]
  • "Secular Dramatics in the Royal Palace, Paris, 1378, 1389, and Chaucer's 'Tregetoures'" (1958)[6]

Personal life edit

Hibbard married fellow literary scholar Roger Sherman Loomis in 1925. His first wife was Hibbard's friend, Gertrude Schoepperle, who died in 1921. She died in 1960, aged 77 years, in New York City.[9][24] Adventures in the Middle Ages; A Memorial Collection of Essays and Studies by Laura Hibbard Loomis (1973) was published in her memory.[25]

References edit

  1. ^ "Miss Hibbard Wins Fellowship". The Boston Globe. 1910-06-21. p. 9. Retrieved 2022-04-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b Rouillard, Linda M. (2010-11-29). "Hibbard, Laura Alandis". In Classen, Albrecht (ed.). Handbook of Medieval Studies. De Gruyter. pp. 2348–2350. doi:10.1515/9783110215588.2348. ISBN 978-3-11-021558-8.
  3. ^ a b Lynch, Kathryn L. "Laura Hibbard Loomis (1883-1960): 'Mrs. Arthur'" in Jane Chance, ed., Women Medievalists and the Academy (University of Wisconsin Press 2005): 239-254. ISBN 9780299207502
  4. ^ Cheung, King-Kok (2017-02-18). Chinese American Literature without Borders: Gender, Genre, and Form. Springer. pp. 292, note 4. ISBN 978-1-137-44177-5.
  5. ^ a b Loomis, Laura Hibbard (June 1930). "Geoffrey of Monmouth and Stonehenge". PMLA. 45 (2): 400–415. doi:10.2307/457800. ISSN 0030-8129. JSTOR 457800. S2CID 164115793.
  6. ^ a b Loomis, Laura Hibbard (1958-04-01). "Secular Dramatics in the Royal Palace, Paris, 1378, 1389, and Chaucer's "Tregetoures"". Speculum. 33 (2): 242–255. doi:10.2307/2850783. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 2850783. S2CID 161981322.
  7. ^ a b Loomis, Laura Hibbard; Cross, Tom Peete (1928-02-01). "Observations on the "Pèlerinage Charlemagne"". Modern Philology. 25 (3): 331–354. doi:10.1086/387715. ISSN 0026-8232. S2CID 162370884.
  8. ^ a b Loomis, Laura Hibbard (1936). "Sir Thopas and David and Goliath". Modern Language Notes. 51 (5): 311–313. doi:10.2307/2912646. ISSN 0149-6611. JSTOR 2912646.
  9. ^ a b "Laura H. Loomis, Educator, Author" The New York Times (August 26, 1960): 25. via Times Machine
  10. ^ Palmieri, Patricia Ann (1997-02-27). In Adamless Eden: The Community of Women Faculty at Wellesley. Yale University Press. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-300-06388-2.
  11. ^ Louchheim, Aline B. "Medieval Painting Shown at Library" The New York Times (November 18, 1953): 39. via Times Machine
  12. ^ Loomis, Laura Hibbard (1979). Three Middle English romances. London: D. Nutt. OCLC 433872086.
  13. ^ Loomis, Laura Hibbard (1924). Mediaeval romance in England; a study of the sources and analogues of the non-cyclic metrical romances. New York [etc: Oxford University Press. OCLC 2400847.
  14. ^ Loomis, Laura Hibbard (December 1926). "Arthur's Round Table". PMLA. 41 (4): 771–784. doi:10.2307/457447. ISSN 0030-8129. JSTOR 457447. S2CID 164076991.
  15. ^ Loomis, Laura Alandis Hibbard. The table of the Last Supper in religious and secular iconography. Princeton University Press, 1927.
  16. ^ Loomis, Laura Hibbard; Loomis, Roger Sherman (1966). Arthurian legend in medieval art. New York: s.n. OCLC 739134014.
  17. ^ Lacy, Norris J. (2006). A History of Arthurian Scholarship. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-84384-069-5.
  18. ^ Loomis, Laura Hibbard (1941). "Chaucer and the Breton Lays of the Auchinleck MS". Studies in Philology. 38 (1): 14–33. ISSN 0039-3738. JSTOR 4172512.
  19. ^ Loomis, Laura Hibbard (September 1942). "The Auchinleck Manuscript and a Possible London Bookshop of 1330-1340". PMLA. 57 (3): 595–627. doi:10.2307/458763. ISSN 0030-8129. JSTOR 458763. S2CID 163267691.
  20. ^ Loomis, Laura Hibbard (1950-10-01). "The Holy Relics of Charlemagne and King Athelstan: The Lances of Longinus and St. Mauricius". Speculum. 25 (4): 437–456. doi:10.2307/2849376. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 2849376. S2CID 163022567.
  21. ^ Loomis, Laura Hibbard (1950). The passion lance relic and the war cry Montjoie in the Chanson de Roland and related texts. New York: Dept. of French and Romance Philology of Columbia University. OCLC 491799261.
  22. ^ Loomis, Laura Hibbard (1952). "The Athelstan Gift Story: Its Influence on English Chronicles and Carolingian Romances". PMLA. 67 (4): 521–537. doi:10.2307/459825. ISSN 0030-8129. JSTOR 459825.
  23. ^ LOOMIS, LAURA HIBBARD (1953). MEDIEVAL VISTA. New York, NY.: METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. OCLC 1043445982.
  24. ^ "Laura H. Loomis, Former Wellesley Professor, Dies". The Boston Globe. 1960-08-26. p. 27. Retrieved 2022-04-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ^ Loomis, Laura Hibbard (1973). Adventures in the Middle Ages; A Memorial Collection of Essays and Studies by Laura Hibbard Loomis. New York, B. Franklin. OCLC 1086677945.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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