Agria 42. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2006)

Veres Gábor: Adatok a bútorzat XVII–XVIII. századi történetéhez Északkelet-Magyarországon

Gábor Veres On the History of Furniture in Northeastern Hungary during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries From 1625 counties in Hungary were legally bound to enforce a policy of price control (price regulation). By examining price control in the northeastern counties this study examines the types of furniture produced by carpenters during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the prices they fetched compared to the price of other commodities and people's incomes. Price control affected domestic furniture irrespective of whether it was used by the peasantry, the urban bourgeoisie or the lesser nobility. While it has been already possible to distinguish some of the furniture types by the manner in which they were specified, other items depend on a familiarity with the object types in question. Also the identification of a significant proportion of the listed objects requires further examination. It is only from the 19th century that we gain considerably more information about Hungarian peasant furniture, and it is for this reason that we are reliant on the county price regulations for a greater understanding of peasant domestic culture during the 17th and 18th centuries. 220