Bereczki Ibolya - Cseri Miklós (szerk.): Ház és ember, A Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum évkönyve 22. (Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 2010)
Nagy Janka Teodóra–Szabó Géza: Sabján Tibor sárközi pártadíszes kályharekonstrukciója – A magyarországi népi kályhásság történeti, etnikai kapcsolatai az újabb kutatások tükrében
Teodóra Nagy Janka-Géza Szabó TIBOR SABJÁN'S RECONSTRUCTION OF AN OVEN WITH BATTLEMENT FROM THE REGION SÁRKÖZ Historic and ethnic relationships of vernacular stove-making in Hungary in the light of the latest research When he had reconstructed an oven with battlement from the region Sárköz, Tibor SABJÁN came to conclusions, which hold true for the entire process of birth and development of oven-setting in Hungary. Those finds, similar to the tile fragments from Ocsény, which have been found in private collections and archaeological excavations, can contribute to the fact that the historic and ethnic background of oven-setting in the region Sárköz and with it the oven-setting in Hungary generally, may be completed and set in a new light. Beside the overview of the so far most important research results for the purpose of a new evaluation of the object type, it is necessary to carry out a more - then ever before - detailed research of the fragments, which are to be considered as a point of departure, as well as to compare and contrast the material of ethnographic and archaeological collections. With the knowledge of the new data it is no more possible to keep by today's research generally accepted opinion which pretends that the peasant tile-stoves in Hungary have evolved on medieval basis due to an internal development. The development of the concretely studied oven-setting in the region Sárköz - mainly in the areas under Turkish occupation - may be led back to late medieval European and within it, to German Gothic and Late-Renaissance basis and traditions, and its evolution can be understood only through the study of the mentioned basis. Thanks to the strengthening of the peasant society in the region Sárköz by the end of the 19 t h century a market with strong demand for ovens with battlement has emerged, with the consequence that this type of oven has become an organic part of Hungarian folk art. This oven type can be well differentiated from European ovens, although they are genetically linked. The revealing of the historic and ethnic background of the oven from Ocsény indicates that the development of oven-setting in Hungary cannot be separated from other areas of interior culture and on the whole, from the process of developing into bourgeois middle class. These processes take place differently in different regions. An uninterrupted development process into the bourgeois middle class can be followed up in Upper Hungary and in Transylvania - and parallel to it the development of the vernacular oven-making. In Middle Hungary however, the process was interrupted - as confirmed by the destroyed ovens in Külsövat, in Ete and in OcsényOltovány: the development of the peasant society to the middle class was to be resumed about 250 years later, after an essential change of inhabitants. The latest archaeological finds confirm that the material culture of the new settlers plays a more decisive role in many fields amongst them in the vernacular oven-setting - than the medieval Hungarian traditions. 241
