Louisa Ropes Loomis

Louisa Ropes Loomis

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Historian, Professor, Author, Editor and Translator. Author of Medieval Hellenism Translator of The book of the Popes. Liber pontificalis, in 1916. Many other texts of Aristotle, Plato and others of ancient Greece. Also books on the Catholic Church. Graduate of Wellesley College.

Loomis was a lecturer in history at Barnard College, and was appointed Warden of Sage College at Cornell University in 1905.[9] In 1906 and 1928, she spoke at the annual meetings of the American Historical Association. From 1921 to 1940, she was a professor of history at Wells College. In 1930, she co-founded the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, with Louise Fargo Brown of Vassar College. She was editor of Classics Club Publications from the mid-1920s until 1949.

“Thus even in philosophy the influences from antiquity which helped to shape fifteenth-century thought were derived more directly from the Empire than from Hellas. A knowledge of the Greek tongue remained in the main an accomplishment for professional men of letters, elegant and to that degree desirable. Through the recommendations of Quintilian the study of Greek was introduced into two or three of the best Italian schools and the argument was brought forward that one could understand and appreciate the Latin tongue far better by the help of some knowledge of Greek. But there was no serious effort to determine the Greek point of view, which was supposed as a matter of course to have been the same as the Roman, nor to utilize Greek literature save as a storehouse of pedantic quotations and ethical examples. The practical value of Greek in exposing errors of Scriptural interpretation and in waging theological controversy was realized only after the knowledge of it had been carried into northern Europe. Such writing as was produced in Italy, comparable at all in straight-forward originality and acumen to the Greek, was prompted by the stress and stir of contemporary life and except in surface embellishments shows little effect of the Greek Renaissance.” - Louise Ropes Loomis, The Greek Renaissance in Italy

Works by Louise Ropes Loomis

• Medieval Hellenism, 1906
• The Book of the Popes: To the Pontificate of Gregory I, Liber Pontificalis, translator 1916.
• Aristotle: On Man In The Universe, translator & editor, 1943
• The Law of War and Peace (De jure belli ac pacis) by Hugo Grotius, Louise Ropes Loomis, et al. 1949
• Plutarch: Selected Lives and Essays by Plutarch, Louise Ropes Loomis, et al. | Jan 1, 1951
• Council of Constance: Unification of the Church (Records of Civilization Sources & Study) Louise Ropes Loomis (translator), John Hine Mundy and Kennerly M. Woody (Editors) 1961.

Louise Ropes Loomis papers, 1925-1958

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