The Exorcist of Sombor: The Mentality of an Eighteenth-Century Franciscan Friar

ISBN-13: 9780367505776 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 304 str.

Opis

The Exorcist of Sombor examines the life course, practice and mentality of an eighteenth-century Franciscan friar, creating a frame around the tightly packed history of events that took place between 1766-1769, and analysing the series of exorcism scandals that erupted in the Hungarian town of Sombor.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Splinters of a Biography. The Life Story of Petrus/Rochus Szmendrovich (1727-1782)  2. Three Years – One Story (Sombor, 1766-1769)  3. A Town on the Boundary between Western and Eastern Christianity: Religious and Ethnic Plurality at Sombor in the Eighteenth Century  4. Clerical History from Beneath. Considerations of a Monastic Order and a Diocese in the Background of a Conflict  5. The Friar who Heals  6. Demonology and Possession  7. Father Rochus, the Exorcist  8.. The Background of a Conflict: the Catholic Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Hungary  9. The Humblest Servant. Subjective Impressions about the Reflection of an Eighteenth Century Priest’s Personality  10. Epilogue

O autorze

Dániel Bárth is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He is also Head of the Department of Folklore and Head of the Doctoral Program of Hungarian and Comparative Folkloristics in the Doctorschool of Literature Sciences. His research interests include archival-historical folkloristics; ethnology of religion; liturgical history and folkloristics; popular culture and everyday life in early modern Hungary; and lower clergy and local society.