Kenyeres István (szerk.): Urbs. Magyar Várostörténeti Évkönyv XV. - Urbs 15. (Budapest, 2021)
Abstracts
Abstracts 417 When the town received the invitation to the Diet, it usually delegated the judge, the royal judge, and the jurors (iurati) to the Diet. Their number varied from 2 to 8. The assembly took place in the town hall of Gyulafehérvár, so the town spent a lot of money on the maintenance of the building. When the assembly was held somewhere else, the accommodation, fodder, firewood, and food had to be obtained on the spot or taken there from Kolozsvár. During the assembly, the town and the delegates communicated by letters. The Diet voted about the amounts of the taxes of the walled and free royal towns. In addition, it accepted articles on the postal service, the usage of the Kolozsvár units of measurement in other towns, the limitation, and the building of the church in Farkas street. In relation to the urban administration, the reversalis letter issued in 1638 about the offices held by members of the Reformed congregation should be mentioned, which led to a change in the composition of the town council, where the proportion of the Unitarian and Reformed members was 50-50% in 1655. The Reformed Church was supported by the Principality, which meant intervention by the central authority. The last section of the study examines 12 citizens from Kolozsvár, who were delegated to the Diet: István Bácsi, Antal Csanádi, Benedek Fejérvári, Ferenc Filstich, Pál Kerekes/Wendrich, Gáspár Kovács, János Linczegh, Mihály Samariai Jó, István Puelacher, Ferenc Stenczel, Miklós Váradi were selected. Their position held in the town, their profession, education, kinship, and wealth are briefly presented. Many of them became related by marriage. Two main groups can be distinguished among them; a part of them wanted to make a career in the town as burghers, while others sought a path of integration into the nobility. They were mostly traders by profession, but there were craftsmen and intellectuals, too. They usually held offices in the town administration for 9 to 34 years; on average, 18 years. Petra Mátyás-Rausch Mining Entrepreneur Noblemen and Mining Burghers - Conflicts of Interests in Abrudbánya in the 17th Century In the early Modem period, the cooperation with the noblemen living within the town walls and the general sharing in taxation represented a serious challenge for the leaders of the Hungarian and Transylvanian towns. The coexistence with the privileged layer of society inevitably caused conflicts; the mining towns were characterized by this special divining line. The mining towns of the Metaliferi Mountains were significantly less developed than the most important mining towns of the Hungarian Kingdom (the mining towns of
