Foreword (János M. Bak)

CHAPTER I

Introduction

1. The "Lesser Nobility "

2. Seventeen Hundred Case

3. Genus and Generatio

4. Historical Anthropology

5. A Note on Genealogical Terminology 

6. Werbőczy as a Frame of Reference 

CHAPTERII

The Tripartitum and Reality .

Werbőczy's System 

1. The Kindred

2. Father and Guardian

3. The Mother

4. The Offspring 

5. The Ancestral Estate

6. Una Eademque Nobilitas

In the Light of the Records

1. A Military Elite

2. The Landowner

3. Marriage 

4. The Solidarity of the Noble Kindred

4.1. The Right of Free Disposition and Limited Grant

4.2. Prefection

The Self-government of the County

CHAPTERIII

The Elefánthy Kindred

1. History

1.1. Origins

1.2. Between Matthew Csák and the Angevin King 

1.3. A New Generation 

1.4. The Fifteenth Century

2. Questions and Issues

2.1. Reproduction

2.2. Marital Strategy

2.3. The Estate 

2.4. Giving and Using Names

2.5. Military Service and Familiaritas

2.6. The Church and the King

2.7. The County

CHAPTERIV

1. Epilogue

1.1. Stratification

1.2. Saturation and Impoverishment

1.3. Familiaritas as aStrategy

Notes 

Notes to Foreword

Notes to Chapter 1

Notes to Chapter 2

Notes to Chapter 3

Notes to Epilogue 

List of Abbreviations

Gazetteer of Geographical Names

List of Figures 

List of Tables