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)
546 population of the Jász district started a large-scale, economically well-founded expansion. In the course of this, it not only resettles the devastated places of its environs and the adjoining wider areas of the plain, but achieves a market domination of this wider neigbourhood with its agricultural produce, industry and commerce. The author lays special emphasis on the fact, that this is not just a migration of the population, but an economically well-founded, effective expansion. 2.1 The caues of the "Jász expansion" . Three interrelated causes are singled out by the author to explain the phenomenon of Jász expansion: a./ The legally priviliged position of the Jász population b./ The continuity of the population is unbroken during the Turkish occupation, although it shrinks to a smaller core c/ Queen Maria Theresia confirms the priviliges of the Jász in 1745 (" redemptio ") and thereby lays the framework that remains till the 19th century. 3./ The structure of Jász family and economy . After naming the causes, the author tries to sketch the actual developments. In this study only one complex problem comes under scrutiny. The author regards the Jász peasant family as the institution capable of turning the advantages secured by the legal priviliges to economic gains. The peasant family is constituted by kinship bonds, it is at the same a legally defined and protected unit of landholding, but it is also a well-functioning workorganization, and it builds the lands owned and leased into a perfectly balanced peasant economy. When this family migrates (even out of the priviliged district) it is able to build up the same efficient mechanism as in its homeland. This particular type of family may be called the dispersed extended family , which is able to unite and integrate the different living quarters and scenes of production, perfectly meeting the requirements of the dispersed homestead type of settlement. The head of the extended family is the husbandman,who legally owns the constituent parts of the holding and cashes its income, invests in the different parts of his holding that support different lines of production. The individual members of the family farm separate farmsteads by themselves but follow the direction of the husbandman, the head of the family, and can not dispose of the income of the units operated by them or use the produced goods in any way apart from the necessary consumption. The author shows in some detail the connections between the different branches of production of the Jász extended family. He stresses, that these constitute a closed system: all branches of production of the Jász peasant holding serve animal husbandry, the young or the well-bred animals are brought to the market. The produces of arable cultivation flowed almost entirely into animal husbandry, where their value is multiplied - supplemented by the value-adding character of mercilessly claimed human labour. This sort of economy, such a closed system of family-work-organizationproduction process is outstanding even on the plain, it may be regarded as peculiar to the Jász district. 4./ The causes forming the structure of the Jász family and economy . The factors forming this type of family and economy are lined up by the author. He thinks that because of the continuity of culture, farming and the legal framework around them, the priviliged residents of the Jász district were able to " modernize " the system of extended family that had been formed under feudal conditions, it was adapted to operate efficiently in a capitalist context, to check the fragmentation of the holdings, even to become a means of accumulation
