ABSTRACT
This study aims to analyse interactions between royal, ecclesiastical and urban areas within their urban settings as well as their characteristic features. The study focuses on spatial aspects of two important centres, two Hungarian royal residences, Buda and Visegrád. Given the existing written1 and archaeological sources,2 this article will concern the first half of the fifteenth century, although some characteristic features of the earlier period will also be discussed in a less detailed way. I want to demonstrate with the help of previous urban studies3 and more recent archaeological investigations that a more complex system of interactions can be detected in the topographical and spatial contexts of royal, ecclesiastical and urban entities, a subject which has previously not been much discussed. Thus, crown and town as well as ecclesiastical powers and their materialized or symbolic presence in urban life constituted zones of activity in urban settlements, where all these aspects expressed themselves both directly and indirectly.
