Urbs - Magyar várostörténeti évkönyv 3. (Budapest, 2008)

Abstracts

IVÁN PETRIK Customs conflicts between the Rabbit Island nunnery and Buda and Pest Béla IV donated to the nuns of the Island of the Rabbits the customs of the fairs of Buda, Pest, and Felhévíz in 1255. This naturally was against the interests of the towns, since it had an unfavourable impact on the trade of the region, which started to develop dynamically at that time. The burghers had two options when after the decision of Tamás Archbishop of Esztergom brought in 1313 they saw that they are not able to enforce their interests in a legal way: on one hand they could try to get from the rulers a permit for a new customs free annual fair, and on the hand they could prevent by force the officers of the nuns collecting the customs. In our researches we found that the nuns succeeded in achieving always the withdrawal of the customs free status of the newly permitted fairs, and the forceful acts have resulted in an unending conflict series. The rulers wanted to meet their obligations existing towards the church (in the most important issues they always brought their decisions in favour of the nuns), but they had to keep in mind the interests of their towns as well. Among others this is why the hostility was ended only by the radical change of the circumstances, the appearance of the Turks. SZABOLCS VARGA The place of Zágráb in the town network of Hungary in the late Middle Ages In spite of the results of the town history researches, few studies were prepared about the area that is located South of river Dráva. For this reason we know extremely little about the urban development of Slavonia and about the role town Zágráb played in the region, in spite of the fact that this town was also the public administration, commercial and cultural centre of the region. In my lecture based on the methods that were established by Mr. András Kubinyi, I am looking for the answer to the question what role Zágráb had in the Hungarian town network, and what impact it had on the development of Slavonia. In respect of the first aspect its role played in transit trade was very important, because the most important commercial road to Italy passed through here, and the goods that came from Germany also reached this place. For this