by Columbia University in 1949, won the Haskins Medal of the Mediaeval Academy of America. After the death of his first wife in 1921, Loomis married Laura Alandis Hibbard (1883–1960), with whom he collaborated in many of his research and writing efforts. He dedicated one of his final volumes to Gertrude Schoepperle Loomis and Laura Hibbard Loomis "in grateful and loving remembrance" (The Grail: From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol published by the University of Wales 1963; and later by Princeton University, in 1991). Loomis died on October 11, 1966, in Waterford, Connecticut. 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 Tristan and Isolt: A study of the Sources of the Romance by Gertrude Schoepperle Loomis, 2d ed., expanded by a bibliography and critical essay on Tristan scholarship since 1912, by Roger Sherman Loomis (New York, B. Franklin, 1960) 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 Chrétien 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 References Footnotes Bibliography Further reading External links The origins of the Holy Grail according to Roger Sherman Loomis New York Times Obituary LibraryThing Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England. By Thomas Townsend Sherman 1887 births 1966 deaths American expatriates in Japan American Rhodes Scholars Arthurian scholars Columbia University faculty Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America Harvard University alumni Holy Grail Hotchkiss School alumni People from