A Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyve 33-34. (1996)

FARAGÓ Tamás: Házasságkötés és társadalom. Buda város a 18-19. század fordulóján (Esettanumány)

MARRIAGE AND SOCIETY - THE CITY OF BUDA AT THE TURN OF EIGHTEENTH-NINETEENTH CENTURY A three-year data set was investigated by the author: the marriage entries of 1793 to 1795 in the se ven parishes of the Hungárián capital, Buda. The aim of the survey was the analysis of the demographic and social characteristic of the local society through the marriage. The demographic characteristics of the Buda marriages match with the generál pattern of other contemporary large úrban communities of Hungary but the analysis by social groups and by city districts show definitive differences. The main dividing lines are between certain social groups: cottagers/labourers, local and foreign born artisans/intellectuals. Because of the relatively sharp social segregation of certain social layers by districts the marriage pattern of the different parishes alsó show variations. The nobles and intellectuals concentrating intő the Burg-district (vár), the nemcomers artisans-merchants residing in the Lower Watertown (Alsó-Víziváros) or the cottagers and vinelabourers of the suburbs (Újlak, Országút, Krisztinaváros) have different age at marriage, seasonality and remarriage patterns. The connubial and the geographic mobility of the mentioned social groups are alsó different. Because of its special social structure (first of all the wine growing and administrative center functions chracterizing the settlement) the Buda marriage patterns are not every respect similar alsó to its neighbouring industrial-commercial twin city, Pest. Tamás Faragó 270