Contents
341Contents
I. Introduction 7
1. The literature of the military jurisdiction of borderline areas 9
2. About the sources of the thesis- and about the problems arising
in connection with them 14
3. Some words about the terminology and the structure of the paper 16
II. The development of military jurisdiction in Europe – especially
in German areas 18
1. The literature of the German military jurisdiction 18
2. The development of military regulations until the formation of the 23
Artikelbrief legitimised by the Imperial Diet (Reichstag) 1570 23
3. The formation and operation of the German military jurisdiction 34
4. The military jurisdiction of foreign armed forces holding services
in anti-Ottoman Hungarian battlefields 45
III. The establishment of the independent Hungarian military jurisdiction
in the borderline areas in the 16th century 65
1. Military jurisdiction in Hungary before the battle of Mohács (1526) 65
2. The formation of the „military code” for the Hungarian infantry and
cavalry in the 16th century 71
3. The establishment of the Hungarian jurisdiction in the borderline areas 82
4. The problems of contemporary terminology 99
IV. The operation and legal practice of the borderline garrison society’s
courts in the 17th century 108
1. The limits and possibilities of the not easily gained legal privileges
of the military jurisdiction 108
2. The operation and legal practice of the captain general’s court-martials 115
3. Jurisdiction in the court-martials of borderfortress troops 133
4. The military jurisdiction of the naszádists in Komárom 148
5. The legal practice of „mixed” court-martials 151
6. The court-martials of borderfortress troops as „loca credibilia” 154
7. The intelligentsia of legal affairs in the borderline areas 159
V. The end of the military jurisdiction of the Hungarian borderline
garrison society 167
VI. Summary 170
VII. Appendix 181
1. Archives 181
2. Archontology (A chapter for a prospective archontological lexicon
to be written on the borderline fortress system) 199
3. The collection of the military-, army- and law-court documents and
other verdicts and records of „mixed” courts 260
342VIII. A list of abbreviations of the archival sources and literature 265
1. Archival sources 265
2. Literature 270
3. The abbreviations journals and periodicals cited among the sources 290
4. Special abbreviations applied in references from archives, literature
and archontology 291
IX. Indices of places and names 293
X. Militärische Rechtspflege im „königlichen” Ungarn im 16.-17.Jahrhundert
(Zusammenfassung) 313
XI. Military Jurisdiction in Habsburg-Hungary in 16-17th centuries
(Summary) 325
