A polgári háztartások felszereltsége és tulajdona Eperjesen a középkor végén
The Equipment and Assets of Middle-Class Households in Eperjes at the End of the Middle Ages

Summary/Abstract: Using archival sources, mainly last wills and testaments, inventories of assets as well as lo-cal pictorial representations and altarpieces, the paper provides a description of the mate-rial culture of the town Eperjes in the 15th and the early 16th centuries. The author describes the main characteristics of the topographical developments in Eperjes, the town districts, the middle-class houses, their building methods, rooms and their contemporary prices. A separate chapter is dedicated to how the particular rooms were equipped, what heating methods were used, how fuel was procured, and how the personal assets, everyday tools, the furnishings and the clothes etc. looked like. The paper provides an outlook on the ma-terial culture of two neighboring towns, Kassa and Bártfa, and compares it to that of Eper-jes. It describes in detail a few testaments and the related inventories of assets as well as the way last wills were executed.

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