Urbs - Magyar várostörténeti évkönyv 8. (Budapest, 2013)
Recenziók
Abstracts 323 process was the result of the steps taken in peacetime by György Rákóczi I ( 1630-1648) in order to encroach upon the privileges of the cities, rather than the consequence of the stormy reign of Gábor Báthory in the early 17lh century. ÁRPÁD CSÁKI The Reformed Church of Kézdivásárhely and Its School in the 17Ih Century Kézdivásárhely - located along the important trade-route between Brassó and Moldova - had role in the transport of goods and belonged to the privileged Székely market towns in the Principality of Transylvania. Furthermore, it was one of the most crucial centres of the handicrafts in that region. Besides its economic significance, Kézdivásárhely was the greatest hold of the Reformed Church in the Felső-Háromszék district whose population remained Catholic. Under the reign of György Rákóczi I, the town’s particle was recorded by the sources among those schools of the town which were financed on the base of Episcopal benefices. The town’s preachers — educated at Western European Universities as so called academita - in the 17lh century were qualified not only in theology, but in the field of medication as well. Many of them worked as Dean. In the last decades of the 17'h century, the reorganization plan of the said school which operated as the particle of the college of Enyed, just like the college of Udvarhely, offered an opportunity for the market town to converge to the significant educational centres in Transylvania. The tragic of the patron, Pál uzoni Béldi crossed the Calvinists’ plan for the foundation of the school. Moreover, a grammar school of the Minorites was established at the turn of the century in the neighbouring settlement, Kanta. The downfall of the autonomous Transylvanian state meant the end of the brightest period in the history of the Reformed Church in Kézdivásárhely as well. The Church could never reach that level of prosperity again, at the best only came close to it a century later after the Edict of Tolerance of Transylvania had come into force.
