Manuscripts of the Queen's Court and Green Mountain

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The Manuscript of the Queen's Court (RK, Rukopis královédvorský, Königinhofer Handschrift) and the Manuscript of the Green Mountain (RZ, Rukopis zelenohorský, Grünberger Handschrift - also The Judgement of Lubussa, LS, Libušin soud) (collectively abbreviated as RKZ) are epic Slavic manuscripts discovered in Bohemia in 1817 by respectively Václav Hanka and Zelená Hora, but later to be determined forgeries. The debate over the authenticity of these manuscripts has occupied Czechoslovak politics for more than a century, with Tomáš Masaryk taking an early position against the authenticity of the papers. Pan-Slavic nationalists on the other hand, saw in the manuscripts a symbol of national conscience.

[edit] Further reading

Lass, Andrew (1988). "Romantic Documents and Political Monuments: The Meaning-Fulfillment of History in 19th-Century Czech Nationalism". American Ethnologist 15 (3): 456-471.