Urbs - Magyar várostörténeti évkönyv 7. (Budapest, 2012)
Recenziók
Abstracts 595 the orders concentrated on the self-sacrifying pastural care of local people. For these reasons monks settled down in several towns and cities of the Hungarian Kingdom in a couple of years. After the conditions got back to normal the monks contributed to the development of the new golden age of monasticism by their unprecedented intellectual and artistic values in the first half of the 18th century. ANDRÁS OROSS The Conflicts of the Steady Garrisons and the New Citizenry at the end of the 17th Century As the Great Ottoman-Hungarian War (1683-1699) progressed more and more important Hungarian cities and towns were recaptured by the soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Army. Esztergom, Szeged, Buda, Pécs, Eger, Székesfehérvár, Kanizsa, Nagyvárad were not only strategically important castles but also served as the centers of chambers administration. The steady garrison consisted of the so-called armed forces of free company and the chambers’ workers. Besides them there were the newly settled citizenry of cities and they intended to have as much independence as they could have between these two forces. The Court Chamber which was responsible for the financial matters and the Court Military Council which was responsible for the military matters of the Habsburg Empire did not agree with the issues concerning the cities of the Hungarian Kingdom. Because of the realistic Turkish (Ottoman) threats, the Military Council stressed the importance of stationing great numbers of soldiers and the reinforcement of ramparts in cities. On the contrary, chamber counselors focused on improving the economic viability and competitiveness of cities. In everyday life there were several sources of conflicts because of the amount of services that each city provided and because of the different ways of paying taxes. Connections between the cities, the Buda Chamber Administration and the so-called free companies were not unproblematic in spite of the expectations. Commander Max Wenzel Frankenberg from Buda, Commander Johann Buttle from Eger, Commander Christian Andreas Jörgen from Székesfehérvár or Commander Christoph Berge from Kanizsa were all notorious both in their cities and in nationwide because of they demanded extra services, arrested city and chamber officials. In addition, misdemeanors were also frequent events in those times. The basis of their reference was that soldiers were lack of supply, and these misdemeanors caused conflicts in almost all recaptured cities and towns.
