Towns between Empires

List of Figures and Tables, List of Acronyms, Introduction - M¡ria Pakucs-Willcocks and Julia Derzsi Part I. Respublicaâ"Political Constructs and Governance 1. Defending the Town's Interest: The Council of the Centumviri and the Administration of Justice in Early Modern Cluj - L¡szl³ Pak³ 2. Urban-Rural Relationship in the Light of Political Statutes at the End of the Sixteenth Century - Julia Derzsi 3. The Main Square outside the Town Walls and the Ruling Elites of Alba Iulia at the End of the Sixteenth Century - Em.ke G¡lfi Part II. Urban Elites and Nobility in Market Towns 4. A Salt-Mining Town in Transylvania: The Political Elite and Urban Governance of Dej between 1541 and 1600 - Anik³ Sz¡sz 5. A Gold-Mining Town in Transylvania: The Political Elite of Baia Mare and the Structure of the Local Government in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century - Petra M¡ty¡s-Rausch 6. Residenza de nobili: Nobility in the Administrative Structures of the Market Town of Caransebe. (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries) - Adrian Magina Part III. Town Books and Town Statutes in Early Modern Transylvania 7. Representations of the Urban Political Order in a Written Context: The First Protocol Book of Sibiu (1522-1565) - M¡ria Pakucs-Willcocks 8. A Szekler Town in Transylvania: The Statutes and Town Book of T¢rgu Mure. in the Seventeenth Century - rp¡d-Botond Gy¶rgy Part IV. The Many Faces of the Urban Elites: Identity and Representation 9. The Saxon Patriciate of Bra.ov in the Early Modern Period - Andor Nagy 10. Medieval Urban Autonomy of C¢mpulung Muscel and Its Realignment in the Modern Period - .tefan Ionescu-Berechet Part V. Public Order and Public Safety in Towns 11. Keeping the City Alive: Managing Public Health Crises in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century in Sibiu - Oana Sorescu-Iudean 12. Shaping a Phanariot Town: Good Order in Eighteenth-Century Bucharest - Constan.a Vintil. 13. The Role of Police in the Good Governance of Ia.i from the Seventeenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Century - Dan Dumitru Iacob 14. Scientific Expertise as a Tool for Urban Administration: Chemical and Bacteriological Analyses ordered by the Municipality of Bucharest, 1877-1914 - Simion C¢l.ia, Glossary, Bibliography, List of Contributors, Index