Urbs - Magyar várostörténeti évkönyv 1. (Budapest, 2006)

Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface 9 IN MEMÓRIÁM GYULA BENDA László Á. Varga: Gyula Benda (1943-2005) 13 Benda Gyula: The Noble Communitas and the Noble Population in Keszthely ... 15 FREE ROYAL TOWNS Gerhard Dilcher: The Meaning of the Notion of City for the Research of Urban History 37 András Kubinyi: "Free Royal Town" — "Royal Free Town"? 51 Katalin Gönczi: Privilege and Urban Freedom: The Legal and Social-Historical Concept of the Status of "Free Royal Town" during the "Long Middle Ages" 63 László Blazovich: The Law Book of Buda and the Hungarian Law Books 73 Katalin Szende: To be a Burgher: Principles and Practice of Acquiring Burghers ' Right in Late Medieval Sopron 85 István H. Németh: The Status of Free Royal Town in the Early Modem Period . . 109 István Bariska: Western-Hungarian Free Royal Towns in the Hierarchy of Estates in the Seventeenth Century: With Special Regard to the Former Habsburg Pawn Towns 123 Teréz Oborni: On the Problems of the Urban History of Transylvania in the Period of the Principality 133 István Kenyeres: The Struggle of Pest and Buda until the Attainment of the Privileges of 1703 159 Judit Pál: The Price of Freedom: Szatmárnémeti'

s Struggle for the Status of Free Royal Town at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century 203 Vera Bácskai : "... Countries Are Cultivated by Royal Towns

..." 227 István Orosz: The Economy of Free Royal Towns and Market Towns From the Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries 235