Urbs - Magyar várostörténeti évkönyv 7. (Budapest, 2012)
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Abstracts 601 GYULAI ÉVA Miskolc 1702-1755 Chamber Administration, Redemption (redemptio) and Plege Owning in a Market Town in the First Half of the 18th century Miskolc market-town was a different town at the end of era of the Ottoman Hungary than in the Middle Ages. Most of its population was no longer serfs in its classical sense as most of them had exemptions gained from their pledgee landlords of Diósgyőr. The townscape also changed, the old town and the new district were no longer separated, the legal authority of the town strengthened, the power of the judge and the council grew stronger and more and more noblemen moved into the city from the 17th century. At the beginning of the 18th century, the Chamber took the Diósgyőr estate out of pawn. However, Miskolc undertook a great initiative by imposing taxes on its citizens and lending money. This resulted the liberation of the town from the landlords’ power by 1702. As a result, the citizens of Miskolc had similar rights as those living in the citizens of free royal cities for the next half century. The population of the market town doubled during this period but the greatest change was the slow catholization of the formerly totally reformed population. The cityscape also changed in the first half of the 18th century, the County Hall was completed, and this resulted that Miskolc became the center of Borsod County. Similarly, a parish church was built, and those Conventional Franciscans who settled down in the city in the 1720’s built a grand Baroque monastery and a two-tower church. Greek shops also opened in Miskolc, but most of the exchange of goods took place in the four national markets and the weekly markets. Also, the number of guilds also increased and all of these resulted that Miskolc became an economic, an administrative and even a cultural center.
