Economy of Medieval Hungary

József Laszlovszky is Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University, Budapest, and director of its Cultural Heritage Program. His research interests are monastic archaeology, preservation of cultural heritage as well as English–Hungarian relations in the Middle Ages.Balázs Nagy is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and visiting faculty member at the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University, Budapest. His main research interests are medieval economic and urban history.Péter Szabó is Deputy Head at the Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno. His main research interests are historical ecology and environmental history.András Vadas is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His research interests are environmental, economic and urban history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period.

• Note on NamesAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Hungarian Medieval Economic History: Sources, Research and MethodologyJózsef Laszlovszky, Balázs Nagy, Péter Szabó and András VadasPart 1 Structure1 Long-Term Environmental Changes in Medieval Hungary: Changes in Settlement Areas and Their Potential DriversLászló Ferenczi, József Laszlovszky, Zsolt Pinke, Péter Szabó and András Vadas2 Demographic Issues in Late Medieval Hungary: Population, Ethnic Groups, Economic ActivityAndrás Kubinyi and József Laszlovszky3 Mobility, Roads and Bridges in Medieval HungaryMagdolna SzilágyiPart 2 Human-Nature Interaction in Production4 Agriculture in Medieval HungaryJózsef Laszlovszky5 Animal Exploitation in Medieval HungaryLászló Bartosiewicz, Anna Zsófia Biller, Péter Csippán, László Daróczi-Szabó, Márta Daróczi-Szabó, Erika Gál, István Kováts, Kyra Lyublyanovics and Éva Ágnes Nyerges6 Mining in Medieval HungaryZoltán Batizi7 Salt Mining and Trade in Hungary before the Mongol InvasionBeatrix F. Romhányi8 Salt Mining and the Salt Trade in Medieval Hungary from the mid-Thirteenth Century until the End of the Middle AgesIstván Draskóczy9 The Extent and Management of Woodland in Medieval HungaryPéter Szabó10 Water Management in Medieval HungaryLászló FerencziPart 3 Money, Incomes and Management11 Royal Revenues in the Árpádian AgeBoglárka Weisz12 Seigneurial Dues and Taxation Principles in Late Medieval HungaryÁrpád Nógrády13 Minting, Financial Administration and Coin Circulation in Hungary in the Árpádian and Angevin Periods (1000–1387)Csaba Tóth14 Coinage and Financial Administration in Late Medieval Hungary (1387–1526)Márton GyöngyössyPart 4 Spheres of Production15 The Ecclesiastic Economy in Medieval HungaryBeatrix F. Romhányi16 The Urban Economy in Medieval HungaryKatalin Szende17 The Medieval Market Town and Its EconomyIstván Petrovics18 Crafts in Medieval HungaryLászló Szende19 The Economy of Castle Estates in the Late Medieval Kingdom of HungaryIstván KenyeresPart 5 Trade Relations20 Domestic Trade in the Árpádian AgeBoglárka Weisz21 Professional Merchants and the Institutions of Trade: Domestic Trade in Late Medieval HungaryAndrás Kubinyi22 Import Objects as Sources of the Economic History of Medieval HungaryIstván Feld23 Foreign Trade of Medieval HungaryBalázs Nagy24 Foreign Business Interests in Hungary in the Middle AgesKrisztina AranyAppendixList of ReferencesIndex of Geographic NamesIndex of Personal Names

''The present volume provides a general introduction to the economic history of medieval Hungary. It serves as starting point for further investigations focused on more specific issues of economic history in general''. - Peter Bučko, in: The Czech Historical Review, 3 (2019). "The book’s perspective is panoramic, multidimensional, and precise[…] a gold mine of knowledge, lucidly presented, about the economic life of the Kingdom of Hungary. It fully merits the status of obligatory reading, for medieval historians in general—including, but also well beyond, those specializing in this subject. In addition, the book contains a trove of evidence useful for a comparative history of the economy of the medieval world". Grzegorz Myśliwski, in: Speculum, 95, 3 (2020). "This is why this large book, edited by József Laszlovszky, Balázs Nagy, Péter Szabó nd András Vadas, is important, for it offers a guide to what is actually taken for granted by Hungarian scholars; it is, finally, a way into the economic history of the whole period between c.900, with the Magyar invasion, and 1526, with the defeat of Louis II in battle against the Ottomans. [...] You cannot do without this book if you want to know about the economy of (particularly late medieval) central Europe as a whole." Chris Wickham in English Historical Review, CXXXV. 573, April 2020 (doi:10.1093/ehr/ceaa013)."...ova knjiga predstavlja a must read za sve povjesničare i amatere povijesti koji se bave nekim od aspekata bilo gospodarske povijesti, bilo ekohistorije ili pak historijske geografije ove regije u srednjemu vijeku." (…this book is a must-read for all historians, all those who are interested in history and who deal with some aspects of economic, ecological history or historical geography of this region in the Middle Ages.)Petra Vručina in Povijesni prilozi 57:159-162."Der anzuzeigende Band stellt die erste umfassende Gesamtdarstellung der Wirtschaftsgeschichte des mittelalter lichen Königreichs Ungarn in englischer Sprache dar. Das Werk ist ein hochwillkommener Überblick für Studierende und Forscherinnen, die des Ungarischen nicht mächtig sind. Sein Verdienst geht jedoch weit darüber hinaus. Die Hrsg. haben 30 Spezialist*innen unterschiedlicher Fachrichtungen versammelt(neben der mittelalterlichen Geschichte sind Archäologie, Archäozoologie, Demografie, Hydrologie und Numismatik sowie verschiedene historische Teildisziplinen wie die Umwelt und Klimageschichte vertreten). Das Ergebnis dieser interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit überzeugt durchweg". Alexandra Kaar, in Journal of East Central European Studies 69 (3), 2020.