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Jessie Laidlay Weston (1850-1928) was an independent scholar and folklorist, working mainly on mediaeval Arthurian texts. For the game see 1850 (board game. 1850 ( MDCCCL) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. An independent scholar is anyone who works outside traditional Academia in the pursuit of truth and knowledge Folkloristics is the formal academic study of Folklore. What actually constitutes folklore is disputed even within the discipline but generally folklore focuses on the King Arthur is a legendary British leader who according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders

Her best-known work is From Ritual to Romance (1920); this book is now available as an online text, as are others of hers. From Ritual to Romance is a 1921 book written by Jessie L Weston. In it she brought to bear an analysis harking back to James George Frazer on the Grail legend, arguing for origins earlier than the Christian or Celtic sources conventionally discussed at the time. According to Christian mythology, the Holy Grail was the dish plate or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, said to possess miraculous powers A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth Celts (ˈkɛlts or /ˈsɛlts/, see Names of the Celts It was cited by T. S. Eliot in his notes to The Waste Land. Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic. The Waste Land ( 1922) is a highly influential 434-line modernist poem by T (He later claimed that the notes as a whole were ironic in intention, and the extent of Weston's actual influence on the poem is unclear. Eliot also indicated that the notes were requested by the publisher to bulk out the length of the poem in book form, calling them "bogus scholarship". [1])

It also caused her to be dismissed as a theosophist by F. L. Lucas, in a hostile review of Eliot's poem. This article is about the philosophy introduced by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Frank Lawrence Lucas (1894 - 1967 was an English literary critic essayist poet and Fellow of King's College Cambridge. The interpretation of the Grail quest as mystical and connected to self-realisation, which she added to the anthropological layer of reading, was to become increasingly popular during the 1920s. The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the " Jazz Age " or the " Roaring Twenties " when speaking about the United States and Canada According to Richard Barber in The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief, the Wasteland as theme in the Grail romances is of minor importance until the last works of the cycle, and the emphasis on fertility is "an interpretation which has haunted twentieth-century literature to a degree quite disproportionate to its basis in fact". Richard William Barber (born 1941 is a prominent British Historian who has been writing and publishing in the field of Medieval history and literature The Wasteland is a Celtic motif that ties the barrenness of a land with a curse that must be lifted by a hero Fertility is the natural capability of giving life As a measure "Fertility Rate" is the number of children born per couple person or population The book appears in the film Apocalypse Now amongst those kept by the character Kurtz, along with The Golden Bough. The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of Mythology and Religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir

While Weston's work on the Grail theme has been derided as fanciful speculation in the years since the publication of From Ritual to Romance (even one-time supporter Roger Sherman Loomis eventually abandoned her hypothesis), her editions of numerous medieval romances have been commended as valuable translations. Roger Sherman Loomis ( October 31, 1887 – October 1966 was an American scholar and one of the foremost authorities on medieval and Arthurian As a Literary genre of High culture, romance or chivalric romance refers to a style of heroic Prose and verse Narrative

A biography "In Quest of Jessie Weston" by Janet Grayson appears in "Arthurian Literature," Vol 11 (1992).

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  1. ^ Eliot, T. According to Christian mythology, the Holy Grail was the dish plate or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, said to possess miraculous powers Perlesvaus, also called Li Hauz Livres du Graal ( The High History of the Holy Grail) is an Old French Arthurian S. (1956). The Frontiers of Criticism: A Lecture Delivered at the University of Minnesota Williams Arena on April 30, 1956. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.  

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