Megyetörténet. Egyház- és igazgatástörténeti tanulmányok a veszprémi püspökség 1009. évi adománylevele tiszteletére - A Veszprém Megyei Levéltár kiadványai 22. (Veszprém, 2010)
Tanulmányok a veszprémi egyházmegye történetéről - Karlinszky Balázs: A VESZPRÉMI KÁPTALAN ZALAMERENYE-KÖRNYÉKI BIRTOKAI A TÖRÖK ELŐTT (Káptalani birtokkezelés a középkorban)
Karlinszky Balázs Solymosi László (1998b), A földesúri járadékok új rendszere a 13. századi Magyarországon, Budapest. Szántó Imre (1960), Egy dunántúli falu, Alsópáhok története, Budapest. Udvardy József (1992), A kalocsai főszékeskáptalan története a középkorban, Budapest. (METEM-könyvek 3.) Vágner József (1896), Adalékok a nyitrai székeskáptalan történetéhez, Nyitra. Estates of the Veszprém chapter before the Turkish conquest (ESTATE MANAGEMENT OF CHAPTERS IN THE MIDDLE AGES) The Zalamerenye group of estates of the Veszprém chapter, at 120 kms distance from the centre, consisted of five villages: Zalamerenye, Zalaújlak, Garabonc, Orosztony and the former Németpáh. This paper shortly surveys not only the historiography of Hungarian estate management and enlists the different types of income of e.cclesiastical bodies, but also outlines the brief history of the five villages as far as capitular ownership is concerned. The author suggests that these estates cannot be regarded as a „domain”, since domains, with a castle or a country town at their heart, were rather political than economical units, and neither of the five mentioned villages had a castle or were oppidi. Moreover, management of church estates, „officiolatus” having been the basic units instead of domains, was somewhat different from that of secular proprietors. The underlying reason behind this is that church estates were situated in a more scattered manner than secular ones, even during the late middle ages, when the aristocracy attempted to concentrate their lands. The author comes to the conclusion that estate management in case of the Veszprém chapter was similar to the developed methods of other church proprietors. Estates were organised into four groups according to geographical reasons, one being the estates around Zalamerenye. It was clerical magistrates (.magistri possessionum) who controlled these land-groups, and they were assisted by secular officials (officialis), who may as well be regarded on the basis of contemporary terminology as governors of the mentioned officolati. Magistrates, as well as the elected head of the economic life of a chapter, the dean (decanus), and the also elected divisor canons (divisores), whose task was to administer and distribute incomes, were members of the chapter and supposed to live in the canonical centre. This means that a structured, multi-level system of estate management existed in case of the Veszprém chapter as well. 56
