A Herman Ottó Múzeum évkönyve 49. (2010)

Fogas Tóth Balázs: A cigándiak lótartása a táj átalakulásának tükrében

SZIRMAY Antal 1806 Zemplénvármegye politikai és helyrajzi ismertetése (ford. MATOLAI Etele) In: Adalékok Zemplén Vármegye Történetéhez. I. 318. TAKÁCS Péter-UDVARI István 1998 Zemplén megyei jobbágy-vallomások az úrbérrendezés korából III. Nyíregyháza VALTER Ilona 1974 A Bodrogköz honfoglalás kori és középkori településtörténete. In: Agrártörténeti Szemle. XVII. évf. 1-55. VÁLYI András 1798 Magyar Országnak leírása I—

III. Buda VIGA Gyula 2003 A paraszti igaerő és munkakultúra néhány összefüggése a Bodrogközben. In: VIGA Gyula-HOLLÓ Szilvia-Cs. SCHWALM Edit (szerk): Vándorutak - múzeumi örökség. Budapest, 85-91. HORSE-BREEDING IN CIGÁND IN THE LIGHT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES The type of draught animals used by a community provides important infonnation on the nature of peasant economies. At Cigánd in the Bodrogköz region, cattle was replaced by horse as the dominant draught animal during the 18th century. The study seeks to find an answer to the reasons underlying the change because this phenomenon seems to have been restricted to Cigánd in the Bodrogköz region. There appear to have been two main reasons for this phenomenon. The first, that the inhabitants of Cigánd were obliged to perfonn corvée labour in the fields of villages other than their own from the 16th century onward because the major estates of their landowners lay by other villages. The second can be traced to geographic and ecologic changes. The documentary evidence would suggest that the extent of arable land and pastureland declined during the 18th century owing to the expansion of marshlands and bogs, compelling the village's expansion both regarding productive work and its participation in trade networks. This, in turn, required greater mobility and faster draught animals, leading to the shift from cattle to horse at Cigánd. Balázs Fogas Tóth 507