średniowiecze: Montague Summers

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Augustus Montague Summers (10 April 1880 – 10 August 1948) was an English author, clergyman, and teacher. As an independent scholar, he published many works on the English drama of the Stuart Restoration (1660–1688) and helped to organise and to promote the performance of plays from that period. He also wrote extensively on the occult and has been characterized as "arguably the most seminal twentieth-century purveyor of pop culture occultism." Summers initially prepared for a career in the Church of England at Oxford and Lichfield, and was ordained as an Anglican deacon in 1908. He served briefly as a curate in Bitton, but he then converted to Roman Catholicism and began styling himself as…

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<i>The History of Witchcraft and Demonology.</i>Montague Summers

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<i>The History of Witchcraft and Demonology</i>. Montague Summers

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The History of Witchcraft and Demonology. 2nd Edition, <i>by Montague Summers</i>

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The History of Witchcraft and Demonology, By Montague Summers. (Kegan Paul; 12/6 net.)

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A Black Mass is a ceremony celebrated by various Satanic groups. Although alleged to have existed for centuries in different forms by Christian sources, only its modern forms are attested, and are intentionally a sacrilegious and blasphemous parody of a Catholic Mass. In the 19th century the Black Mass became popularized in French literature, in books such as Satanism and Witchcraft, by Jules Michelet, and Là-bas, by Joris-Karl Huysmans. Modern revivals began with H.T.F. Rhodes' book The Satanic Mass published in London in 1954, and there is now a range of modern versions of the Black Mass performed by various groups.

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Charles Zachary Barnett (c1813 – 1849) was an English librettist and playwright of Jewish descent notable for writing the libretti for two operas by his brother the composer John Barnett as well as for his early theatrical adaptations of the works of Charles Dickens. He was the son of a Hungarian mother and Bernhard Beer, a Prussian Jew who changed his surname to Barnett on settling in England as a diamond merchant and jeweller. According to some he was a cousin of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer. Charles Zachary Barnett was the younger brother of the composer John Barnett, for whom he wrote the libretti for two of his operas, Fair Rosamond (1837), in which he 'perversely reduced the story t…

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Features of Methodological Issues on the Example of Montague Summers’ Work «The History of Witchcraft»

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<i>The History of Witchcraft and Demonology</i>. By <scp>Montague Summers</scp>. [The History of Civilization, edited by C. K. Ogden.] (London: Kegan Paul; New York: A. A. Knopf. 1926. Pp. xv, 353. 12 s. 6 d.), <i>The Geography of Witchcraft</i>. By <scp>Mont…