In mid 19th century important discussion andinstitutional changes took place in scientific studies of history, which infuture was to affect the individual interpretations of Czech history. Multilateral interpretations of the Czechpast were already offered by the period textbooks whose compilation wascommissioned by the Ministry of Culture and Education in Vienna, as well as by individual literaryworks written without official commissioning.
All of them document selection of genre and theme as well as attentionpaid to works inspired by the past by Austrian authorities, also with regard tothe public for which they were intended.