Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich schwerpunktmäßig mit den Beziehungen zwischen Mähren und Süddeutschland im Frühmittelalter. Von den vielen verschiedenartigen gesellschaftlichen Phänomenen, auf die sich die gegenseitigen Kontakte auswirkten, sei näher diskutiert der Wandel im Bestattungsritus. Diese historischen Prozesse kann man im archäologischen Fundgut unter anderem mit der Verbreitung von spätmerowingischen Bommelohrringen und Pressblechfibeln in Verbindung bringen. Die Anfänge dieser Übermittlung gehen tief in das 8. Jahrhundert zurück, als in Mähren die ersten Körpergräber aufkamen. In ihnen waren auch diejenigen Frauen beigesetzt, die alemannischen und bajuwarischen Schmuck trugen. and The study addresses the relationships between Moravia and south Germany in the Early Middle Ages. Among the many social phenomena influenced by mutual contacts, the work in particular discusses the change in the burial ritual. Among other things, this social process can also be connected with the spread of Late Merovingian earrings with spherical pendants and disc brooches. The beginnings of cultural influence stretches back far into the 8th century, when the first inhumation graves appear in Moravia. The women that were also buried in these graves wore Alemanni and Bavarian ornaments.
The article analyzes set of normative sources which regulated the exercise of the profession of painters and sculptors in Brno in the 18th century (guilds’ statutes, government’s decrees, civic regulations, judicial sources etc.). The study interprets the decline of the artists’ guild organization in Brno in the 1750s in a wider perspective of economic and administrative reforms in the Habsburg monarchy. These reforms were marked by several particular initiatives made by the artist’s corporation in Brno, who came up with own unsuccessful proposals of various changes of the traditional city’s guild system. The study states that such initiatives should not be explained simply as symptoms of a changing urban society in Central Europe during the Enlightenment era, or as a consequence of the dynamics of proto-industrialization and the establishment of new economic as well educational institutions, but also as a result of the new product market and the demand shifted towards less expensive and more fashionable goods.