Századok – 2001

TANULMÁNYOK - Pach Zsigmond Pál: A vidéki posztóipar az északkeleti országrészen a 15-17. században IV/793

818 PACH ZSIGMOND PÁL the 15th to 17th centuries, an important part was played in Hungary by the third, lowest level of the cloth market, where the low-quality and cheap home products were put into circulation. Consequently, alongside an urban cloth-making industry, seriously limited by the import, certain forms of the provincial cloth-making industry, examined and disputed frequently by the international scholarly literature since the distinction made by Henri Pirenne between the draperie urbaine and the draperie rurale, also emerged in Hungary. But it was in such branches of the cloth-making (and in such an economic environment) that the nuclei of a provincial industry were born in Hungary, that they remained unable to develop into a modern capitalist textile industry.