Urbs - Magyar várostörténeti évkönyv 7. (Budapest, 2012)
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588 Abstracts them.) Buda as a royal centre turned increasingly important became their business centre. From Buda they controlled their business activity in the territory of the Hungarian Kingdom. Although the most of the Florentines settled down in Buda, just like the South German long distance merchants, possessed civil rights and properties in Buda, by the fact that they did not take part in the local politics and their marriage patterns one can conclude that they did not attempt to real integration. In contrast, the South German merchants were members of the city’s political elite. Furthermore, their properties in Buda meant the bulk of their fortune, thus they went through some ways of integration. However, their marriage preferences refer to that they were not built into the society of Buda, but by their family relations they organized a some kind of regional South German commercial and social network interwove the main commercial centres of Central Europe. JUDIT MAJOROSSY The Ways of Approach to the Relation of the Urban Elite and the Court (Nobility of the Court) in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modem Era In the present article the author studied the relation of the royal town of Pressburg (Pozsony, today Bratislava) towards the court and the nobility in the end-fourteenth and the fifteenth century, mainly by analysing the relating urban administration, a few issues of self-government, the formation (and/or re-formation) of urban spatial structure and certain elements of the use of urban space. The main aim of the paper was to present methodological approaches, but also to call the attention to those aspects of town life, the study of which can help scholars to give answers to questions related to the problem of residential status. By studying Pressburg’s administrative history, the formation, characteristics and changing of its institutions and urban government, the author drew the conclusion that the period between 1440 and 1460 was a transitional one. The temporary “residential” features which characterised Pressburg during the reign (especially the later years) of King Sigismund faded away after his death, and the new practices introduced by the, in its tendencies, more centralised urban government of the 1440s-1450s became constant elements and characteristics of the town life by the time of King Matthias’ rule. Be these new phenomena the then became permanent practices of the inner and outer council, the changes of the inner administration, the new and determining character of the Corpus Christi Confraternity, the formed route of the Corpus Christi procession, or
