Varga László - Lugosi András (szerk.): URBS. Magyar Várostörténeti Évkönyv XIV. - URBS 14. (Budapest, 2020)
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Abstracts Katalin Simon Urban place - ecclesiastical place The use of urban places by the Catholic Church in Buda in the 18th century Churches played important roles in the lives of our towns until the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. As opposed to our times, when activities related to the church — church holidays and feasts, everyday assignments, pastoral or mental health care, etc. - are less visible most of the times, in the 18th century they affected the everyday life of the town dwellers in many ways. The aim of the study it to illustrate the manifold interaction of town - townspeople - church by the example of the contemporary Buda with an outlook to the neighbouring Pest and Óbuda. Beside demonstrating the use of urban public places by the institutions of the Catholic Church (orders providing pastoral care, as well as nursing orders since the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries), buildings ‘warning’ to everyday religiousness are shown, such as small urban chapels, crosses, crucifixes that were mostly dissolved during the reign of Joseph II, but were characteristics to the townscape. Last but not least I analyse the impact of high festivals, that literally leave the buildings of churches and occupy the large spaces of the town and of other public events on town dwellers. Emese Gyimesi Urban space through the eyes of children Pest-Buda in the middle of the 19th century Although studying the history of childhood is a more and more popular field of research nowadays, not many analyse the use of spaces through the context of emotional reflections resulted by the city in the 19th century society (and among children in the first place). The study discusses the issue with the help of case studies based on mainly unpublished or published but not much analysed sources. Although some researches were inspired by the fact that the space and the concept of identity became of high priority category in the studies, but researching emotions in urban history is still missing and dealing with methodological issues. I think to analyse childhood reception in the cities is important, because in the second half of 19th century autobiographies constantly refer to it when recalling the reflections to the immense changing of the huge city. Keeping that in mind I compare the autobiographies of Emília Kánya and Frigyes Podmaniczky. I would like to emphasise the latter, because this writing of his refer to the times before his activity as an urban politician, Pest-Buda in the 1830s and 1840s, which are quoted less frequently by researchers. Comparing the childhood context could also show whether the gender of the writer makes a difference Urbs. Magyar Várostörténeti Évkönyv xiv. 2019. 313-318. p.
