Urbs - Magyar várostörténeti évkönyv 4. (Budapest, 2009)
Recenziók
Abstracts VERONIKA NOVÁK Space usage research - methods and opportunities. The study of social space in the history of medieval and early modern towns This historiographic study discusses international space usage research, primarily that concerned with the non-material concept of space. It first looks at the principal elements of social space theory (Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau), their interpretation and applicability in medieval and early modern urban historiography, and then, through examples, surveys the potentially most promising specific approaches and issues. These could include studies concentrating on the spatial location of socio-cultural phenomena; a more direct spatial conception for reconstruction of the urban social space via the study of spatial units, boundaries, and forms of ritual spatial use; and the use of techniques of microhistory to elucidate a broad historical process embedded in the local level. The review draws primarily on French literature, in which case the text provides a more thorough historiographical presentation, with secondary use of work published in English. ANDRÁS VÉGH The medieval topography of Buda - plot division and spatial organisation in a newly-founded town Having escaped from his oppressors after the Mongolian invasion of 1241-1242, which destroyed the Kingdom of Hungary, King Béla IV set about the reconstruction of his kingdom with enormous energy. He recognised the prime importance of castles and fortified places, and took a direct part in founding and building these. Chief among the king’s other measures was the fortification of royal centres on the medium regni, i.e. the centre of the kingdom, in Esztergom, Fehérvár and Buda. He resettled the burghers of the royal borough of Esztergom to the castle on the hill, but the lack of space there prompted them to return after a few years, restoring the previous arrangement. In Fehérvár, built on islands on an extensive marsh, the mostly Wallonian burghers were resettled to the central island which held the royal basilica and the royal castle, and surrounded it with a new castle wall. In Buda, he moved the German burghers of Pest from their defenceless plain beside the Danube to a hitherto uninhabited, or sparsely inhabited plateau surrounded by new castle walls, and the URBS. MAGYAR VÁROSTÖRTÉNETI ÉVKÖNYV IV. 2009. 439^152. p.
