Társadalomtörténeti múdszerek és forrástípusok. Salgótarján, 1986. szeptember 28-30. - Rendi társadalom, polgári társadalom 1. - Adatok, források és tanulmányok a Nógrád Megyei Levéltárból 15. (Salgótarján, 1987)
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543 made by the Research Center of Ethnography of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences tries to exploit the theoretical approaches of the above-mentioned researches. Dr. Klaniczay is one of the participants of this research group led by Dr. Eva Pócs. This research group has worked out the questionnaires which will be used to the quantitative analysis of the records and documents of the witchcraft trials collected and published by Andor Komáromy, Ferenc Schräm, and others. The questionnaires include the viewpoints of the sociology of accusation as well. The questionnaires are supposed to be used for the purposes of the quantitative analyses and the theoretical researches as well. Because the program has still been under progress Dr. Klaniczay surveys a few cases of the witchcraft trials in the final sections of his essay and gives the preliminary remarks about them regarding their connections with the social tensions of eighteenth-century communities. Thirty witchcraft trials studied by him occurred in Hődmezövásárhely between 1730 and 1755. These trials were published by Ferenc Schräm. Apart from these published documents, he also surveys his extensive collection of the archivalia of the witchcraft trials occurred in the market towns and villages of eighteenth-century Hungary. ZOLTÁN KAPOSI ; The great estates and their population in Somogy County at the beginning of the 19th century The subject : The interest of the author is devoted to basically the economic aspects of the society of great landowners: their distribution according to wealth, their social composition, the stage of economic development of their estates, and the spatial structures of agriculture emerging from these factors — these were the themes of the study. The sources : There were a number of different sources that served as a basis for this study, among others a population census of 1804, a census of landowners from 1806 and a register of officers of the county self-government from 1807, naturally supplemented by relevant literature and the results of the author's earlier research. The method : What is to be explored, is the connection between two very important production factors, between the land the population living on the land. In the period review estates were meant to include " allodial " land (the manorial lands directly cultivated by the landlord) and The F T urbarial " land (land parcelled up among serts as " sessiones ", virgates). The tipping of the balance of the land (population ratio in any direction away from the scarcely definable optimum could have very serious consequences for the other party) . This investigation has a basically statistical character, so the probability of results may be considered as a function of the volume of the data used. For lack of space only 30 % of the area of the county is dealt with in this paper - this, however, embraces widely differing localities of the county, so the results may be considered suitable for generalizations. Author proceeded as fellows: first the lands of the great landlords were collected from lists of the lords of the villages. The probable institutional set-up of the estates was mapped on the basis of geographical and estate-administration data, then followed the definition of the most important indicators and the setting up of a typology. The greatest difficulty was encountered when determining the area of " allodial " land (directly cultivated by the lord) an " urbarial " land (held by the serfs), because of the lack and unreliability of the sources a number of significant
