Montague Summers

Broschiertes Buch

The Vampire

His Kith and Kin

Beschreibung

¿The Vampire - His Kith and Kin¿ is a 1928 work by English clergyman and author Montague Summers. Within it, Summers discusses the vampire phenomena from a Catholic point of view, offering an a veritably academic study of the subject. Contents include: ¿The Origins of the Vampire¿, ¿The Generation of the Vampire¿, ¿The Traits and Practice of Vampirism¿, ¿The Vampire in Assyria, the East, and Some Ancient Countries¿, and ¿The Vampire in Literature¿. Augustus Montague Summers (1880 ¿ 1948) was an English clergyman and author most famous for his studies on vampires, witches and werewolves¿all of which he believed to be very much real. He also wrote the first English translation of the infamous 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the ¿Malleus Maleficarum¿, in 1928. Other notable works by this author include: ¿A Popular History of Witchcraft¿ (1937), ¿Witchcraft and Black Magic¿ (1946), and ¿The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism¿ (1947).

Autor

Augustus Montague Summers (1880-1948) was an English author and clergyman born in Bristol. Despite initially studying to work for the Church of England, Summers converted to Catholicism and worked as a teacher of English and Latin. He's well-known for his studies of the supernatural, and his most notable works are History of Witchcraft and Demonology, 1926, and his 1928 translation of the 15th century manual for witch hunters, the Malleus Maleficarum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Obscure Press
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9781528714839
• ISBN-10: 1528714830
• Artikelnr.: 58623198