List of Figures and Tables
List of Acronyms
Introduction - Mária Pakucs-Willcocks and Julia Derzsi
Part I. Respublica—Political Constructs and Governance
1. Defending the Town’s Interest: The Council of the Centumviri and the Administration of Justice in Early Modern Cluj - László Pakó
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 Gálfi
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 - Anikó Szász
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 Mátyás-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) - Mária Pakucs-Willcocks
8. A Szekler Town in Transylvania: The Statutes and Town Book of Târgu Mure. in the Seventeenth Century - Árpád-Botond György
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 Câmpulung 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 Câl.ia
Glossary
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
