Urbs - Magyar Várostörténeti Évkönyv 9. (Budapest, 2014)
Abstracts
326 Abstracts tions. The laws created in 1672,1676, and 1699 were the consequences of the measures aimed to solve the conflicts took place in the city’s public life. The author of the present paper examines the reasons of these conflicts in light of the said laws. The regulations tell us that the leadership did not comply the annual renewals, moreover they did not report their activity, committed abuse in case of rating and collecting the taxes. Furthermore the leaders did not repartition regularly the fields and did other abuses as well. In each case the remedy of the situation required the intervention of higher authorities. The conciliation, settling the issues, in which criminal procedures were needed to take, was always laid down in laws. ANDREA FEHÉR ‘she who dressed like a man and lived as a male’. Crossing Gender Boundaries in Kolozsvár. The trial of András Ungvári (1712) The present paper aims to give an interpretation of the trial of the cross-dresser female sodomite, Erzsébet Ungvári [or András ‘as she liked to be called’] as it is revealed in the court protocols of the town of Kolozsvár. The two sources of the event, on which the present essay relies upon, were both written by authorities, representatives of order, law and justice, János Handsáros, who was a jurist scribe, and György Bereczk (Briccius) Vízaknai, a physician and later became royal judge. The analysis at first focuses on the cross-dresser, and then on the female sodomite, finally it attempts to disclose some legal aspects of the sodomy. Ungvári’s case is discussed from a male perspective, as a case of men ran legal system, furthermore, all the narratives on this trial are reviewed, which in this interpretation contains moral, legal and sexual elements of a male discourse regarding the female sodomy.
