The aim of the study is to provide a more detailed account of the historical events in Opava between the autumn of 1918 and the first half of 1919. During this period, the Habsburg monarchy collapsed, Czechoslovakia was established, the province of Sudetenland came into being and subsequently ceased…

The article examines the activities of the bookbinding workshop designated in the Einbanddatenbank (EBDB) database as Sechsblatt-Blüte rund and assigned the number w003831. Its products decorated with blind tooling — of which it has so far been possible to identify sixteen manuscripts preserved in…

The study examines the origins and survival of the Olomouc Breviary (Breviarium Olomucense), the first printed liturgical book of the Moravian diocese, produced in Venice in 1484. The breviary was commissioned at a time when there was no stable or technically proficient printing workshop within the…

Ladislaus Bartholomaeides published his Rozmlauwánj Jozefa Druhého s Matěgem Prwnjm Korwýnus řečeným [A Dialogue between Joseph II and Matthias I, Called Corvinus] in Prague in 1790, the year of the death of Emperor Joseph II. Employing the popular genre of posthumous dialogues, he drew parallels…

The article examines the life and career of Professor Franz Stowitschek (1890–1959), a German educator, journalist, politician, and cultural figure active in Austria and post-war Czechoslovakia. Drawing on archival sources, printed materials, and regional literature, it reconstructs his political…