Darkó Jenő – Erdősi Péter (szerk.): Történeti tanulmányok - Studia Comitatensia 32. (Szentendre, 2011)
Kovács Annamária: Egy kiállítás margójára. József Attila emlékkiállítás a Dunakanyarban
172 Abstracts ABSTRACTS GERGELY BÓKA The history of Káka in the Middle Ages (895-1526) In this account on the medieval history of Kóka, a village situated in the Eastern part of Pest County, the author used primary sources on the local noblemen including the Kókai (Kacsi) family, and the results of archaeological excavations, as well as those of his enquiry into historical geography. The latter enabled him to reconstruct the medieval street system of the village and the location of the one-time settlements in its surrounding. Linguistic examinations revealed that the personal name and toponym “Kóka” originated from the word meaning “jackdaw” both in Slavic languages and in Hungarian. Nineteenth-century drawings and the description made by the parson of Kóka show the layout of the medieval Gothic church which can probably be identified with that of the building hidden under the modern church. The charters regarding the noble families of Kóka cover the history of the village in the period of the Árpád dynasty and in the later Middle Ages. Among the prominent members of the Kókai family, Egyed (Giles) must have had some important position as early as in the mid thirteenth century, Gál (Gall) was a royal doorkeeper, and his brother Mihály (Michael) had also access to the royal court. By the end of the fourteenth century, the family had a fairly large private landed property. Its value is shown by the fact that it was kept in one piece and underwent several exchanges managed by the king during the fifteenth century: it was owned by the Tétényi family and even by the queen, but was gradually falling apart by the end of the century. Some parts of it were integrated into the properties of small landowners (the Túróczi, the Rozgonyi, and the Brandenburg). JENŐ DARKÓ Privileges granted to the Serbs during the Rákóczi uprising In an essay, published in 1980, Kálmán Benda, a prominent historian of the early modern period, analyzed the relations of Prince Ferenc Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian anti-Habsburg uprising (1703-1711), to the Serbian population in Hungary. The Serbs were loyal to the Habsburg ruler of Hungary in this conflict hoping that he would protect their privileges. Benda claimed that there was a chance for an agreement between Rákóczi and the Serbs. The author of the present essay revisited Benda’s subject as he found a relevant charter, in Pest County Archives, rather unexpectedly, among the documents regarding the town of Szentendre. Rákóczi’s charter, issued in 1708, in the context of the events leading to his defeat, shows the Prince’s intention to restore the privileges of the Serbs in exchange for loyalty and military support he required from them. Benda’s assessment of the story as possibly leading to a mutual appeasement between Rákóczi and the Serbs may seem somewhat idealistic because a thorough re- evaluation, carried out in this essay, shows the willingness of Serbian political leaders to take their stand in favour of the Imperial Court and their efforts to gain support from the Habsburgs, and as a consequence, the improbability of an agreement between the Hungarian rebels and the Serbian supporters of Vienna’s politics. CSILLA GÓCSA MÓRÓ The Blaskovich family in Rákóczi ’s uprising — objects related to the era and the cult of Prince Rákóczi in the Blaskovich collection The history of the Blaskovich family represents a career typical for many families of the Hungarian lesser nobility. Its history can be traced back to the era of Prince Francis Rákóczi’s uprising when two brothers, István and Sámuel Blaskovich, took opposite political sides, yet preserved the solidarity within the family. The cult of the Prince became widespread in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Blaskovich descendants, who cherished Rákóczi’s cult, were fervent collectors of valuable objects, and erroneously attributed some of the items possessed by them to the historical period of the uprising. The first public display of the Blaskovich family collection in Hungary took place in the context of the National Millennial Exhibition in Budapest. Gyula Blaskovich (1843-1911), the head of the family put on show the most precious items of his collection, such as pairs of pistols mounted with silver and gold, a Turkish hanjar and a ceremonial sword, in the historical section of that exhibition. The Blaskovich added seven objects to the Rákóczi exhibition of 1903 in Kassa (present- day Kosice), organized three years before the Prince’s solemn reburial. The collection has been preserved in the family’s former mansion atTápiószele (Pest County), a building which currently belongs to the Directorate of Pest County Museums and serves as a rare example, at least by Hungarian standards, of a surviving noble residence with original interiors and collectors’ items.
