Benedikció és exorcizmus a kora újkori Magyarországon

The volume takes the reader into the Hungarian past of the liturgical texts of positively motivated, blessing benedictions and exorcisms aimed negatively at removing evil. The narrower epoch limit of the study is the 16th–18th centuries, which are of paramount importance in terms of sources. Although the large collection of texts mainly provides a selection of Hungarian sources, in the introductory study and explanations the author also attempted to show European parallels. The early modern issues of the Roman Catholic practice of benediction are organically connected with the history of church sacramentals. The presentation and functional grouping of the ecclesiastical offerings of blessings and curses of the period not only provides hitherto undiscovered data for the domestic past of the sacramentals, but also sheds light on the diversity of the daily needs of the faithful and the religious-magical remedies offered for them. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the topic, the publication can attract the attention of practitioners of several disciplines (for example ethnography/folkloristics, church and liturgical history, as well as theology, cultural history and history of mentality).