1st Edition
The Exorcist of Sombor The Mentality of an Eighteenth-Century Franciscan Friar
Introduction
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
Biography
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.
