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The Exorcist of Sombor - The Mentality of an Eighteenth-Century Franciscan Friar (Paperback)
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The Exorcist of Sombor - The Mentality of an Eighteenth-Century Franciscan Friar (Paperback)
Series: Microhistories
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The 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.
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