Társadalomtörténeti múdszerek és forrástípusok. Salgótarján, 1986. szeptember 28-30. - Rendi társadalom, polgári társadalom 1. - Adatok, források és tanulmányok a Nógrád Megyei Levéltárból 15. (Salgótarján, 1987)
Angol nyelvi összefoglalók (English Summaries)
536 by the " Neoacquistica Commissio " after the resettlement were the loss or confirmation of the extensive freedom of the towns. It was in the course of this investigation that Nagyoroszi had lost its priviliged position and became dependent on a feudal lord. The study investigates — along the lines of the functional method — the quantifyable aspects of the society of country towns in Nógrád. Anything but a high concentration of population is characteristic for these towns - from the first half of the 18th century to the 1870's not more than 12,5-16 % of the population of the county lived in the towns, and not even in the 1870's did the population of the largest town surpass 7000. Considering commerce as the most inportant urban role, this study dwells on the significance of fairs and the share of population engaged in commerce at length. From this aspect Losonc and Balassagyarmat stood out. This however, had no direct connection to the strength of the market-center-function, since the number of marchants was the greatest there, where a lot of Jewish families lived -- (e.g.) in Balassagyarmat and Szécsény, while in the chief market center, Losonc, there were few proffessional Jewish merchants up to 1840. The strength of artisan industry is usually measured by the number of guilds and the ratio of guild-masters to journeymen. From contemporary censuses Gács, Losonc and Balassagyarmat seem to be the towns with the most decidedly industrial character. As a new aspect, the number and income of intellectuals (honoratiores) has also been studied. They played a significant role in the society of Losonc, Balassagyarmat and Szécsény. As a conclusion, three settlements may be considered as urbanized: Losonc, Balassagyarmat and Gács. GYULA BEN0A : The Reconstruction of the Market-town Community Keszthely between 1700 and 1850 (Problems and Findings of a Research) Dr. Benda in his essay summarizes the problems and findings of his research program relating to the history of the local community of Keszthely between 1700 and 1850. He intended to use the comparative approach of social history, sociology and anthropology in the course of the investigation. As the title of the essay suggests, the aim of the research is the reconstruction of the local community in the market-town Keszthely. Keszthely lies on the western shore of the Lake Balaton. It had four to six thousand inhabitants during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. At that time, Keszthely belonged to the important Transdanubian centres cf handicraft industry and the regional trade, in addition it was the centre of the Festetich's large estates. As far as its size is concerned, the social relations were still personal and intimate for the inhabitants. The community, as Or. Benda defines, means the system of the social relationship, the custom and manners shaped by the scale of value and culture. Actually, the communities of the noble families, the market-town burghers, the peasantry, and the Jewry co-existed together there. Besides this sophisticated social structure, the vine-dressers cultivating their vineyards on the edge of the town constituted the fifth community. The task of the research is to examine to what extent these social strata formed their real and distinct communities. Concerning the methodological attempt of the research, the elementary data of the demographical, cultural, and social aspects of the everyday life will be correlated with each other by means of the quantitative method of the so-called record linkage.
