Magic and Demonology in Albert Szenci Molnár’s Personal Commonplace Book
Magic and Demonology in Albert Szenci Molnár’s Personal Commonplace Book

Author(s): Márton Szentpéteri
Subject(s): Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Modern Age, Culture and social structure , 16th Century, 17th Century
Published by: Historický ústav SAV
Keywords: Albert Szenci Molnár; magic; demonology; modern age; 17th century;
Summary/Abstract: Albert Szenci Molnár (1574-1634) is one of the most popular and frequently researched 17th century Reformed intellectuals for contemporary scholars of Hungarian studies. No doubt, this eminent position in early modern intellectual history has a lot to do with Szenci Molnár’s own techniques of self-fashioning especially present in his often autobiographically inspired forewords to his works or in his diary kept in a personal manuscript-book together with his hitherto unpublished Loci communes among others. One of the most important aspects of this self-fashioning could be regarded as a Johannes Piscator-type project of reducing the intellectual interest to ‘universal Bible studies’ consisting of the preparation of dictionaries, grammars, revised Bible editions, psalm-paraphrases and catechisms in the vernacular instead of dealing with philosophy in general including ‘philosophia naturalis’ as well.

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