Talk:Jean Markale

A former student's reminiscence
(This has no place in the article proper, but is worthy of keeping, and provides a view useful for NPOV, in the French article, this part ended in the talk page too.--Svartalf 14:19, 4 February 2006 (UTC))

Jean Markale was my French literature teacher when I was a student at the Massillon private high school during the 70's. I remember a brilliant tale teller who fascinated his audience, smoked in class and encouraged us to do the same (68 was not far in the past...). I don't know whethe he spoke Irish, Celtish, or an obscure dialect of Eastern Gibberish, but I know one thing : He taught us all one essential point in literature: textual analysis. Tall, gaunt, and surrounded with the smoke of gitanes brand cigarettes, he made us dream and told us of the mysteries of the Brocéliande forest. He was a real teacher, not an austere chap following the curriculum by the letter, but a guy, admittedly somewhat tricksy, (one day he came to class with a box full of copies of his last book (Celtic tradition) which he sold us by telling us it would be the course book for our class that year... But he awakened us to literature through his passion.


 * If you have a verifiable source for this quote, then by all means add it back to the article. We could use a pro-Markale viewpoint to balance the critical quote. SouthernComfort 12:28, 8 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Markale may have been a good literature teacher, but his books on medieval religion aren't worth a dime. I'm a student of theology in Marburg (Germany) and I read Markale's work on the Cathars. One of those 'my evidence is the general lack of evidence' type of books, much like the stuff that is published on the Priory of Sion. --87.169.9.205 21:30, 13 January 2007 (UTC)


 * There is a pro-Markale viewpoint, SouthernComfort? Perhaps in his personal life. His academic publications are nearly worthless, and though I have never taken a class with him as instructor, anyone who publishes the pulp he puts out would not likely be a good teacher. Keep trying, and good luck. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 192.251.125.85 (talk) 09:07, 19 February 2007 (UTC).