Janó Ákos: Sárospatak és vidéke helytörténeti, néprajzi irodalma. (Documentatio Borsodiensis 7. Herman Ottó Múzeum Miskolc, 1987)

SUMMARY

which based upon demonstration and new progressive methods, aimed at the better knowledge of the World. To publish his works, the contemporary lords of the castle and the patrons of the school and the Rákóczi-s founded a press. In time, beside the secondary, "gymnasium" education, the Fa-ulty of Theology, an Academy of Law and a Teachers' Training School were founded within the frames of the School. The Academy of Law existed till the end of the 1920-s, while the Faculty of Theology worked till 1951 within the ancient walls of the College, and teachers' education still exists as the present Teachers' Training College in Sárospatak. During our study we endeavoured to the possible complete collection of the hisotric and ethnogaphic literature of the town and its surroundings. The frames giving the geographical and thematic limits to the town's past and traditonal folkculture, casually change: they could be expanded or limited. The administration, the inner organizational and constitutional life can as well be studied within the closer frames of the habitation, while the education, the higher levels of schooling and the roles of the ancient College and the Teachers' Training College overgrow the border of the town and effect on a larger circle. The castle of Sárospatak had an outstanding role: the landlords of the big land estate belonging to the castle used to often be the decisive personalities of the national or even the European political life: their activity in Sárospatak can be evaluated only with regard to the national political events. The town combines in its economic life the characteristic features of a mountain country and a plainfield: beside the traditions of shepherding, agriculture and progressed viniculture, the town preserves the memorial relics of minerals' mining, stone extraction, wood^works. Cwing to its geographical postition and the good possibility of crossing river Bodrog, the town was drawn into the international trade which remarkably promoted the development into a town. The regional historic, ethnographic data, descriptions, articles, studies and individual publications we bibliographically collected show a coloured, multilayer development. The literature related to the folk culture and history of the area is quite large and rich. The interest in the past of this territory showed itself in many aspects already during the 18th century. Beside the general geographic and geologic descriptions of this part