Buda helye Közép-Európa középkori városfejlődésében

The study presents medieval Buda and its agglomeration in the context of Central European royal and princely seats, using four analytical categories of primarily topographical nature: natural endowments, site selection, ground plan, and centrality in terms of secular and ecclesiastical institutions, pointing out both common traits and individual features. The framework of comparison deliberately goes beyond the limits of Prague and Cracow as the traditional points of reference both westwards and eastwards, since the author believes that the development of Buda is put in a sharper relief by comparing it with Silesian and Austrian cities as well as with princely seats in Moldavia, Wallachia, Serbia, and Bosnia. Due to its geopolitical location, the capital of medieval Hungary acted as a link towards the urban
development of polities both to the East and South of the kingdom. A common trait in the region was the fact that monarchs supported urbanisation and ecclesiastical institutions in cities with the purpose of strengthening their power, but there were significant differences as to how much this was tied to the liberties of the civic population.