Towns Between Empires

Introduction

Maria Pakucs-Willcocks, Julia Derzsi


Part I. Respublica - Political Constructs and Governance


1. Defending the Town's Interest: the Council of the Centumviri and the Administration of Justice in Early Modern Cluj

Laszlo Pako


2. Urban-Rural Relationship in the Light of Political Statutes at the End of the Sixteenth Century

Julia Derzsi


3. The main square outside the town walls and the ruling elites of Alba-Iulia at the end of the sixteenth century

Emoke Galfi


Part II. Urban elites and nobility in market towns


4. A Salt-Mining Town in Transylvania: Political Elite and Urban Governance of Dej between 1541 and 1600

Aniko Szasz


5. A Gold-Mining Town in Transylvania: Political Elite of Baia Mare and the Structure of the Local Government in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century

Petra Matyas-Rausch


6. Residenza de nobili: the Market Town of Caransebe? in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Adrian Magina


Part III. Town books and town statutes in early modern Transylvania


7. Representations of urban political order in written context: the first protocol book of Sibiu (1522-1565)

Maria Pakucs-Willcocks


8. A Szekler town in Transylvania: The statutes and town book of Targu Mure? in the seventeenth century

Arpad-Botond Gyoergy


Part IV. The many faces of the urban elites: identity and representation


9. The Saxon patriciate of Bra?ov in the early modern period

Andor Nagy


10. Medieval urban autonomy of Campulung Muscel and its realignment in the modern period

?tefan Ionescu-Berechet


Part V. Public order and public safety in towns


11. Keeping the city alive: managing public health crises during the first half of the eighteenth century in Sibiu

Oana Sorescu-Iudean


12. Modelling a Phanariot Town: "Good Order" in eighteenth-century Bucharest

Constan?a Vintila


13. The role of police in the "good governance" of Ia?i from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century

Dan-Dumitru Iacob


14. Scientific expertise as a tool for urban administration: Chemical and bacteriological analyses of the municipality of Bucharest, 1877-1914

Simion Cal?ia


Contributors

Gazetteer

Index of names

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ECE towns; good governance; political elites; urban policies; social order