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Montague Summers

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Augustus Montague Summers (10 April 1880 – 10 August 1948) was an English author and clergyman. [1]

69 relations: Aleister Crowley, Ann Radcliffe, Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Antinous, Aphra Behn, Bath, Somerset, Bitton, British Museum, British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology, British undergraduate degree classification, Brocard Sewell, Catherine of Siena, Catholic Church, Catholic Encyclopedia, Church of England, Clifton College, Clifton, Bristol, Compendium Maleficarum, Daemonolatreiae libri tres, Deacon, Diocese, Francesco Maria Guazzo, Gothic fiction, Greater Bristol, Hagiography, Heinrich Kramer, Herbert Thurston, Holy orders, Horace Walpole, Jacob Sprenger, Jane Austen, John Clute, John Dryden, John Edgar Browning, John Grant (author), Justice of the peace, Lichfield Theological College, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Lourdes, Ludovico Maria Sinistrari, Malleus Maleficarum, Marquis de Sade, Matthew Hopkins, Middle Ages, Mike Ashley (writer), Nicholas Rémy, Northanger Abbey, Occult, Pederasty, Prendergast Hilly Fields College, ..., Religious order, Restoration (England), Richard Barnfield, Richmond Cemetery, Royal Society of Literature, Satanism, The Castle of Otranto, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest, The Times, Thomas Otway, Thomas Shadwell, Trinity College, Oxford, Vampire, Werewolf, William Congreve, William Wycherley, Witch trials in the early modern period, Witchcraft. Expand index (19 more) »

Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley (born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer.

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Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe (born Ward, 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel.

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Anthony Maria Zaccaria

Saint Anthony Maria Zaccaria (Italian: Antonio Maria Zaccaria) (1502 – 5 July 1539) was an early leader of the Counter Reformation.

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Antinous

Antinous (also Antinoüs or Antinoös; Ἀντίνοος; 27 November, c. 111 – before 30 October 130) was a Bithynian Greek youth and a favourite, or lover, of the Roman emperor Hadrian.

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Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn (14 December 1640? (baptismal date)–16 April 1689) was a British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths.

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Bitton

Bitton is a village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England, in the east of the Greater Bristol area on the River Boyd.

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British Museum

The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

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British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology

The British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology (BSSSP) was founded in 1913, "to advance a particularly radical agenda in the field of sex reform, based on the writings of gurus such as Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis." In 1931 the Society was renamed the British Sexological Society.

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British undergraduate degree classification

The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading structure for undergraduate degrees (bachelor's degrees and integrated master's degrees) in the United Kingdom.

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Brocard Sewell

Michael Seymour Gerveys Sewell (1912–2000), usually now known by his religious name Brocard Sewell, was a British Carmelite friar and literary figure.

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Catherine of Siena

Saint Catherine of Siena (25 March 1347 in Siena – 29 April 1380 in Rome), was a tertiary of the Dominican Order and a Scholastic philosopher and theologian who had a great influence on the Catholic Church.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Catholic Encyclopedia

The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, also referred to as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia and the Original Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language encyclopedia published in the United States and designed to serve the Roman Catholic Church.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Clifton College

Clifton College is a co-educational independent school in the suburb of Clifton in the city of Bristol in South West England, founded in 1862.

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Clifton, Bristol

Clifton is both a suburb of Bristol, England, and the name of one of the city's thirty-five council wards.

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Compendium Maleficarum

Compendium Maleficarum is a witch-hunter's manual written in Latin by Francesco Maria Guazzo, and published in Milan, Italy in 1608.

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Daemonolatreiae libri tres

Daemonolatreiae libri tres is a 1595 work by Nicholas Rémy.

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Deacon

A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions.

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Diocese

The word diocese is derived from the Greek term διοίκησις meaning "administration".

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Francesco Maria Guazzo

Francesco Maria Guazzo, aka Guaccio, aka Guaccius (1570–16??) was an Italian priest.

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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance.

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Greater Bristol

Greater Bristol is a term used for the conurbation which contains and surrounds the city of Bristol in the South West of England.

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Hagiography

A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader.

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Heinrich Kramer

Heinrich Kramer (1430 – 1505), also known under the Latinized name Henricus Institor, was a German churchman and inquisitor.

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Herbert Thurston

Herbert Henry Charles Thurston (15 November 1856 – 3 November 1939) was an English priest of the Roman Catholic Church, a member of the Jesuit order, and a prolific scholar on liturgical, literary, historical, and spiritual matters.

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Holy orders

In the Christian churches, Holy Orders are ordained ministries such as bishop, priest or deacon.

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Horace Walpole

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.

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Jacob Sprenger

Jacob Sprenger (also James, Jakob, Jacobus, 1436/1438 – 6 December 1495) was a Dominican Friar.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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John Clute

John Frederick Clute (born 12 September 1940) is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction (also SF, sf) and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969.

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John Dryden

John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.

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John Edgar Browning

John Edgar Browning (born October 14, 1980) is an American author, editor, and scholar recognized internationally for his nonfiction works about the horror genre and vampires in film, literature, and culture.

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John Grant (author)

John Grant (born 22 November 1949) is a Scottish writer and editor of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction.

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Justice of the peace

A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer, of a lower or puisne court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace.

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Lichfield Theological College

Lichfield Theological College was founded in 1857 to train Anglican clergy to serve in the Church of England.

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London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in southwest London, England, forms part of Outer London and is the only London borough on both sides of the River Thames.

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Lourdes

Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan) is a small market town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees.

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Ludovico Maria Sinistrari

Ludovico Maria Sinistrari (26 February 1622 – 1701) was an Italian Franciscan priest and author.

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Malleus Maleficarum

The Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, is the best known and the most important treatise on witchcraft.

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Marquis de Sade

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814), was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer, famous for his libertine sexuality.

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Matthew Hopkins

Matthew Hopkins (c. 1620 – 12 August 1647) was an English witch-hunter whose career flourished during the English Civil War.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Mike Ashley (writer)

Michael Raymond Donald Ashley (born 1948) is a British bibliographer, author and editor of science fiction, mystery, and fantasy.

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Nicholas Rémy

Nicholas Rémy, Latin Remigius (1530–1616) was a French magistrate who became famous as a hunter of witches comparable to Jean Bodin and De Lancre.

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Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, in 1803.

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Occult

The term occult (from the Latin word occultus "clandestine, hidden, secret") is "knowledge of the hidden".

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Pederasty

Pederasty or paederasty is a (usually erotic) homosexual relationship between an adult male and a pubescent or adolescent male.

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Prendergast Hilly Fields College

Prendergast School is a Comprehensive girls' secondary school, located on Hilly Fields, Brockley, in the London Borough of Lewisham.

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Religious order

A religious order is a lineage of communities and organizations of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion, usually characterized by the principles of its founder's religious practice.

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Restoration (England)

The Restoration of the English monarchy took place in the Stuart period.

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Richard Barnfield

Richard Barnfield (1574 – 1620) was an English poet.

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Richmond Cemetery

Richmond Cemetery is a cemetery on Lower Grove Road in Richmond in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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Satanism

Satanism is a group of ideological and philosophical beliefs based on Satan.

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The Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole.

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The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy is a 1997 reference work concerning fantasy fiction, edited by John Clute and John Grant.

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The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest

The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest is a Gothic novel by Ludwig Flammenberg (which is a pseudonym for Carl Friedrich Kahlert) first published in 1794.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway (3 March 1652 – 14 April 1685) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd (1682).

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Thomas Shadwell

Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642 – 19 November 1692) was an English poet and playwright who was appointed poet laureate in 1689.

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Trinity College, Oxford

Trinity College (full name: The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope (Knight)) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Vampire

A vampire is a being from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital force (generally in the form of blood) of the living.

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Werewolf

In folklore, a werewolf (werwulf, "man-wolf") or occasionally lycanthrope (λυκάνθρωπος lukánthrōpos, "wolf-person") is a human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolflike creature), either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (often a bite or scratch from another werewolf).

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William Congreve

William Congreve (24 January 1670 – 19 January 1729) was an English playwright and poet of the Restoration period.

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William Wycherley

William Wycherley (baptised 8 April 1641 – 1 January 1716) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.

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Witch trials in the early modern period

The period of witch trials in Early Modern Europe were a widespread moral panic suggesting that malevolent Satanic witches were operating as an organized threat to Christendom during the 16th to 18th centuries.

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Witchcraft

Witchcraft or witchery broadly means the practice of and belief in magical skills and abilities exercised by solitary practitioners and groups.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_Summers

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