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- Title
CHURCH AND SALT. MONASTERIES AND SALT TRADE IN THE MEDIEVAL KINGDOM OF HUNGARY (11TH-13TH CENTURIES).
- Authors
ROMHÁNYI, BEATRIX F.
- Abstract
In medieval Hungary the kings often supported monastic institutions by salt donations. Although--unlike in many Western European provinces--salt mines were and remained until the end of the Middle Ages royal property, the participation in the salt trade was a major income source for quite a number of monasteries. The best known source for this is the Bereg treaty from 1233 by which Bizere Abbey also received a certain quantity of salt. The ecclesiastic and particularly the monastic participation in the salt trade was significant especially from the late eleventh until the mid-thirteenth century. According to the charter evidence mainly Benedictine and Cistercian abbeys, as well as the military orders, had a privileged position. The paper deals with certain political and economic aspects of the Bereg treaty and with the monastic participation in the Arpadian-Age salt trade.
- Subjects
HUNGARY; MONASTERIES; SALT industry; BENEDICTINE architecture; CISTERCIAN architecture
- Publication
Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Historica, 2015, p147
- ISSN
1453-9306
- Publication type
Article