Goldsmiths have always raised interest among the scholars, most of all because their intermediary status between those who worked and those who authored. In early modern Transylvania, the goldsmith craftsmen of Cluj/Kolozsvar gradually became members of the high elite of the town. The reasons behind this varied. After the catastrophe of Mohacs (1526), when the medieval Hungarian Kingdom fell to the Turks, the role of the town changed considerably within the new born Principality of Transylvania. Within the new geo-political reality, the newly granted privileges yielded advantages that...
Goldsmiths have always raised interest among the scholars, most of all because their intermediary status between those who worked and those who author...
