Aetas - 22. évf. (2007.) 3. sz. - EPA

Tanulmányok MARCELA DOMENOVÁ
MARCELA DOMANOVÁ
The Equipment and Assets of Middle-Class Households
in Eperjes at the End of the Middle Ages
Using archival sources, mainly last wills and testaments, inventories of assets as well as local
pictorial representations and altarpieces, the paper provides a description of the material
culture of the town Eperjes in the 15 th and the early 16 th 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 material
culture of two neighboring towns, Kassa and Bártfa, and compares it to that of Eperjes.
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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