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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 820: Wealth and Ownership in Seljuk and Ottoman Border States

Tuesday 12 July 2011, 16.30-18.00

Moderator/Chair:Christopher Wright, Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London
Paper 820-aThe Finances of the Transylvanian Towns in the Late Middle Ages
(Language: English)
Zsolt Simon, 'Gheorghe Sincai' Research Institute of Human Sciences, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Târgu Mureş
Index terms: Administration, Economics - Urban
Abstract

Paper -a:
On the basis of the preserved medieval accounts of the Transylvanian towns (Sibiu (c. 1400, 1494-1497, 1501, 1503, 1504, 1506-1509), Cluj-Napoca (1496), Brașov (1506-1526), Mediaş (1507-1519), and Sighişoara (1522)), and of the urban archives' charters, in my paper I would like to answer the following research questions: What were the budget structure of these towns? How and why did this structure change in time? How and why did these towns acquire their incomes? How and why did they spend them? How and why did the incomes and the expenses change in time? What were the similarities and the differences between the finances of these towns, and why?