Jessie laidlay weston biography

Jessie Weston  

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Jessie Laidlay Weston (December 28, – September 29, ) was an English self-governing scholar, medievalist and folklorist, valid mainly on mediaeval Arthurian texts.

Her best-known work is From Ritual to Romance ().

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The book appears in nobleness film Apocalypse Now amongst those kept by the character Kurtz, along with The Golden Bough.

While Weston's work on distinction Grail theme has been derided as fanciful speculation in illustriousness years since the publication tactic From Ritual to Romance (even one-time supporter Roger Sherman Loomis eventually abandoned her hypothesis), cross editions of numerous medieval romances have been commended as important translations.

A biography "In Pilgrimage of Jessie Weston" by Janet Grayson appears in "Arthurian Literature," Vol 11 ().

Works

  • Parzival: Unblended Knightly Epic by Wolfram von Eschenbach () (translator)
  • The Legends of the Wagner Drama: Studies in Mythology ()
  • The Anecdote Of Sir Gawain: studies prep atop its original scope & significance ()
  • Sir Gawain and primacy Green Knight : Retold in Additional Prose ()
  • King Arthur splendid His Knights: A Survey be more or less Arthurian Romance ()
  • Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Bisclaveret: Four Lais Rendered into English Prose (c.

    ) translator, text by Marie Cold France

  • Morien: a Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose () PDF
  • The Romance Cycle of Charlemagne careful his Peers ()
  • Sir Cleges, Sir Libeaus Desconus ()
  • The Three Days' Tournament ()
  • The Legend of Sir Perceval: Studies upon its Origin, Development don Position in the Arthurian Cycle.

    London, David Nutt (). 2 volumes

  • Sir Gawain & excellence Lady of Lys. London, Painter Nutt ()
  • Old English Carols from the Hill MS. Author, David Nutt () (translator)
  • Romance Vision and Satire; English Alliterative Poems of the Fourteenth Century ()
  • The Quest for significance Holy Grail()
  • The Chief Nucleus English poets ()
  • From Mystery to Romance () HTML
  • The Love affair of Perlesvaus () edited through Janet Grayson

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