Markets and Staples in the Medieval Hungarian Kingdom

This book discusses medieval markets and depots, places of commercial activity in the Kingdom of Hungary, and their many interactions, and how they developed and changed over time. The system went through many changes as new demands arose over the centuries, but permanence and adherence to old ways was always a characteristic feature. In the early Kingdom of Hungary, only the king could hold markets, but clerical and secular landowners gradually acquired market rights in later times. The only prerogative retained by the king was the power to grant a franchise for a market. Kings may have created the institutional have for trade, but markets followed their own course of development in the way they operated.

Boglárka Weisz is the leader of the "Lendület" Medieval Hungarian Economic History Research Team. She works at the Institute of History of the Research Centre for the Humanities. Her main fields of interest are the economic history and the institutions of 11 th–14th-century Hungary.