Hungarian National Museum

Exhibitions > Permanent exhibitions > History of Hungary > Villages and towns

	History of Hungary from the foundation of the state to 1990 Middle Ages
	Age of Arpads
	Century of the Anjou rulers
	King Zsigmond and the Hunyadis
	Villages and towns in the second half of the 15th century and at the beginning of the 16th century
	The Age of Matthias Hunyadi, the Jagielloes
	The Turkish Age
	Transylvania and the royal Hungary
	Driving out the Turkish. Aristocratic and urban relics from the 17th century
	Modern and Contemporary History
	Scholar Hungarians who made the 20th century
	On the East-West frontier: History of the people of the Hungarian lands from 400.000 BC to 804 AD
	The coronation mantle
	Medieval and Early Modern Lapidary
	Roman Lapidary

Villages and towns in the second half of the 15th century and at the beginning of the 16th century

Room 4

The section oversees objects presenting the every-day life of the medieval country. The spread of stoves shows that the heating systems of the rural houses became more comfortable and economic. More and more refined liturgical objects were prepared for the urban churches.

Curiosities:

	In the middle of the country, a new type of stoves was introduced at the end of the 15th century, which survived until the end of the 19th century.
	The bookshelf of Bártfa came from St, Giles Church with books belonged to the first public library of the country. After the Reformation, Bártfa became a reformatted town, and the church library was opened to the public.
	The typefaces of the printed mass-books imitated the typefaces of hand-written codices. In the printed books, there were empty paces for the initials and for the pictures painted by hand.
	The urban merchants were mainly of Italian and German origin. Their wide spreading domestic relations helped the development of the long-distance trade. Nicolaus Dobrynger' (a burgher of Buda) coat of arms found on his tombstone also appeared in a legal book found at Selmecbánya.




Glass cup and cover