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Microhistories Ser.: Exorcist of Sombor : The Mentality of an Eighteenth-Century Franciscan Friar by Dániel Bárth (2020, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100367356791
ISBN-139780367356798
eBay Product ID (ePID)24038262721
Product Key Features
Number of Pages294 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameExorcist of Sombor : the Mentality of an Eighteenth-Century Franciscan Friar
Publication Year2020
SubjectChristianity / Denominations, General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaReligion, History
AuthorDániel Bárth
SeriesMicrohistories Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2020-005382
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal271.3092
Table Of ContentIntroduction I. Splinters of a Biography. The Life Story of Petrus/Rochus Szmendrovich (1727-1782) II. Three Years - One Story (Sombor, 1766-1769) III. A Town on the Boundary between Western and Eastern Christianity: Religious and Ethnic Plurality at Sombor in the Eighteenth Century IV. Clerical History from Beneath. Considerations of a Monastic Order and a Diocese in the Background of a Conflict V. The Friar who Heals VI. Demonology and Possession VII. Father Rochus, the Exorcist VIII. The Background of a Conflict: the Catholic Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Hungary IX. The Humblest Servant. Subjective Impressions about the Reflection of an Eighteenth Century Priest's Personality X. Epilogue
SynopsisThe Exorcist of Sombor examines the life course, practice and mentality of an eighteenth-century Franciscan friar, based on his own letters and documentation, 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, from the perspectives of social history and cultural history. The author employs a method which reflects historical anthropology, the history of ideas and the influence of Italian microhistory. Based on the activity of an exorcist priest in the early modern period, the documents of the ecclesiastical courts and a considerable body of autograph correspondence are thoroughly examined. Analysing these letters gives the reader a chance to come into close proximity with the way of thinking of a person from the eighteenth century. The research questions in connection to the documentation aim to identify the causes for the conflict. How was it possible to have "correct" and "wrong" methods of exorcism within the practice of one and the same church? What sort of criteria were used when certain previously accepted practices were dubbed superstitious in the second half of the eighteenth century? What were the changes that took place in the attitude of priests and friars within the ecclesiastical society of the period? How can a conflict be focussed on a practice (healing by exorcism) which has roots going back thousands of years? How many different variants of demonology existed in the clerical thinking of the age? As a highly accomplished source analysis within microhistory, The Exorcist of Sombor will be of great interest to early modern historians, anthropologists and culture researchers interested in microhistory and themes such as religion, magic, occultism and witchcraft., The Exorcist of Somborexamines the life course, practice and mentality of an eighteenth-century Franciscan friar, based on his own letters and documentation, 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, from the perspectives of social history and cultural history. The author employs a method which reflects historical anthropology, the history of ideas and the influence of Italian microhistory. Based on the activity of an exorcist priest in the early modern period, the documents of the ecclesiastical courts and a considerable body of autograph correspondence are thoroughly examined. Analysing these letters gives the reader a chance to come into close proximity with the way of thinking of a person from the eighteenth century. The research questions in connection to the documentation aim to identify the causes for the conflict. How was it possible to have "correct" and "wrong" methods of exorcism within the practice of one and the same church? What sort of criteria were used when certain previously accepted practices were dubbed superstitious in the second half of the eighteenth century? What were the changes that took place in the attitude of priests and friars within the ecclesiastical society of the period? How can a conflict be focussed on a practice (healing by exorcism) which has roots going back thousands of years? How many different variants of demonology existed in the clerical thinking of the age? As a highly accomplished source analysis within microhistory, The Exorcist of Sombor will be of great interest to early modern historians, anthropologists and culture researchers interested in microhistory and themes such as religion, magic, occultism and witchcraft.
LC Classification NumberBX4705.S948B37 2020
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