Talk:Montague Summers
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Question is the picture that is included in the best taste or in any way accurate as to the subject that it is supposedly representing? Haakonsson 17:31, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
I had been researching Summers in preparation for an article but found an unregistered user, 217.43.229.23 beat me to it. However, it looks as if he cut his biography from the web here. I've replaced nearly everything of 217.43.229.23's entry, leaving chiefly a quote from one of Summers's books. PedanticallySpeaking 18:58, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)
- I've done a bit of editing on the article. Some time ago (after reading Carl Sagan's last book) I became interested in the medieval witch-craze and looked up the Malleus Maleficarum in my university library. The only English translation was Summers's. I think others might have been as confused as I was then about who Summers was. He was not a Catholic priest, though he pretended to be one, and might perhaps have been secretly ordained by the Old Catholic Church (in which case ordinary Catholics would consider him validly but illegally ordained, and not authorized to conduct any church business). Summers, basically, was one of a number of rich, eccentric homosexual English writers who for various reasons became fascinated with Catholicism, the Middle Ages, and the occult at the turn of the century. (It seems to me he had much in common with Frederick Rolfe, though I don't know if they were acquainted. He certainly knew Aleister Crowley well.) His books are bizarre and of little scholarly value, though the ones on the occult stay in print because of their sensationalist appeal. --Eb.Hoop 23:02, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Titles of Books
I'm grateful to User:Bishonen for italicizing book titles. He expaned a couple of the titles of books Summers edited to include the subject's first name in the title so it would read "The Complete Works of William Wycherly." In the source I copied the list from, the Xian names are missing on several of these and, not having checked the titles against, say, the Library of Congress catalog, I'm trusting my source. So that's why I left the link alone, but reverted the display to just a surname. PedanticallySpeaking 15:47, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
Added ISBNs where possible. (That is, where reprints exist which are recent enough to have been assigned an ISBN). Tabor 18:51, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
It seems to me that the use of links within the publication titles is incorrect, as the links have nothing to do with the publications themselves but rather with the meanings of individual words within the titles. Shouldn't links within publication titles be restricted to linking to wiki articles about the relevant publications, and not to wiki articles for random words within the titles? Is there a general rule for this sort of thing? Does anyone have an assenting or a dissenting opinion? Canonblack 22:13, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
- I agree with you. It's not only incorrect it's illogical. E.g. would one would link Tolstoy's famous novel as War and Peace or War and Peace? If the latter is an absurd idea for the titles of the works of Tolstoy, it's equally absurd for the titles of the works of Montague Summers. Colin4C 18:45, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't Daemonolatreiae_libri_tres (Demonolatry) be mentioned somewhere in the article? ISBN: 0766136302 --Demonslave 16:19, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
