Frederick the Great post links
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cahnMore Frederick the Great (henceforth "Fritz") and surrounding spinoffs history! Clearly my purpose in life is now revealed: it is to encourage mildred_of_midgard and selenak to talk to me about Frederick the Great and associated/tangential European history. I am having such a great time here! Collating some links in this post:
* selenak's post on Frederick the Great as a TV show with associated fandom; a great place to start for the general history
* I have given up indexing all posts, here is the tag of discussion posts. Someday when I actually have time maybe I'll do a "best of."
Some links that have come up in the course of this discussion (and which I am putting here partially for my own benefit because in particular I haven't had time to watch the moviesbecause still mainlining Nirvana in Fire):
Fritz' sister Wilhelmine's tell-all tabloidy memoirs (English translation); this is Part I; the text options have been imperfectly OCR'd so be aware of that (NOTE 11-6-19: THIS IS A BOWDLERIZED TEXT, I WILL COME BACK WITH A BETTER LINK)
Part II of Wilhelmine's memoirs (English translation)
A dramatization of Frederick the Great's story, English subtitles
Mein Name ist Bach, Movie of Frederick the Great and J.S. Bach, with subtitles Some discussion of the subtitles in the thread here (also scroll down)
2017 miniseries about Maria Theresia, with subtitles and better translation of one scene in comments
ETA:
Miniseries of Peter the Great, IN ENGLISH, apparently reasonably historically solid
ETA 10-22-19
Website with letters from and to Wilhelmine during her 1754/1755 journey through France and Italy, as well as a few letters about Wilhelmine, in the original French, in a German translation, and in facsimile
University of Trier site where the full works of Friedrich in the original French and German have been transcribed, digitized, and uploaded:
30 volumes of writings and personal correspondence
46 volumes of political correspondence
Fritz and Wilhelmine's correspondence (vol 27_1)
ETA 10-28-19
Der Thronfolger (German, no subtitles; explanation of action in the comment here)
ETA 11-6-19
Memoirs of Stanisław August Poniatowski, dual Polish and French translation
ETA 1-14-20
Our Royal Librarian Mildred has collated some documentation, including google translate versions of the Trier letters above (see the "Correspondence" folder)!
mildred_of_midgard and selenak to talk to me about Frederick the Great and associated/tangential European history. I am having such a great time here! Collating some links in this post:* selenak's post on Frederick the Great as a TV show with associated fandom; a great place to start for the general history
* I have given up indexing all posts, here is the tag of discussion posts. Someday when I actually have time maybe I'll do a "best of."
Some links that have come up in the course of this discussion (and which I am putting here partially for my own benefit because in particular I haven't had time to watch the movies
Fritz' sister Wilhelmine's tell-all tabloidy memoirs (English translation); this is Part I; the text options have been imperfectly OCR'd so be aware of that (NOTE 11-6-19: THIS IS A BOWDLERIZED TEXT, I WILL COME BACK WITH A BETTER LINK)
Part II of Wilhelmine's memoirs (English translation)
A dramatization of Frederick the Great's story, English subtitles
Mein Name ist Bach, Movie of Frederick the Great and J.S. Bach, with subtitles Some discussion of the subtitles in the thread here (also scroll down)
2017 miniseries about Maria Theresia, with subtitles and better translation of one scene in comments
ETA:
Miniseries of Peter the Great, IN ENGLISH, apparently reasonably historically solid
ETA 10-22-19
Website with letters from and to Wilhelmine during her 1754/1755 journey through France and Italy, as well as a few letters about Wilhelmine, in the original French, in a German translation, and in facsimile
University of Trier site where the full works of Friedrich in the original French and German have been transcribed, digitized, and uploaded:
30 volumes of writings and personal correspondence
46 volumes of political correspondence
Fritz and Wilhelmine's correspondence (vol 27_1)
ETA 10-28-19
Der Thronfolger (German, no subtitles; explanation of action in the comment here)
ETA 11-6-19
Memoirs of Stanisław August Poniatowski, dual Polish and French translation
ETA 1-14-20
Our Royal Librarian Mildred has collated some documentation, including google translate versions of the Trier letters above (see the "Correspondence" folder)!
Re: Epic rap battles of history
Date: 2019-10-05 01:50 am (UTC)Those facts are related. :) I refuse to watch almost everything, and I wouldn't be watching any of this now if I weren't chronically sleep-deprived.
basically led to my skipping all of the world history classes, so I definitely never learned about Frederick the Great in school.
I *took* all my world history classes, and still didn't learn any of this! At best Fritz might have been a passing mention in the Seven Years' War, but only if we covered the war before I became obsessed, because then I would definitely remember. It's just possible, because I became obsessed in January or February of that school year (I don't remember the day, but I still have a very clear visual and tactile memory of the exact moment), and if we started with the Renaissance in August and finished up with WWI in May...why, yes, I do have surprisingly specific memories of my life, why do you ask? :P
My OC protagonist was modeled on Joan, both explicitly in-universe and in terms of authorial choices, but with Alexander the Great's level of success at incorporating new territories into her growing empire, lol forever, plus a longevity that is only remotely plausible if you know she was a time-traveler from the future, oh god, I'm laughing so hard.
She would have performed well in an epic rap battle, is I guess what I'm saying. ;)
Speaking of memories, I have no idea why this memory just came back to me, but in that world history class sophomore year, I have this hilarious memory of someone asking, in all seriousness, "What's sodomy?" and the teacher panicking and looking at *me* to bail her out, LOOOL. Unfortunately for her, I was such a prude at that age that even though I knew the answer, I said, "Don't look at me!" So she was forced to address the question while trying to keep the class from getting out of control. Older me would have happily bailed her out, but she got sophomore and sophomoric me, alas.
I was surprised then and I'm surprised now, not that she knew that I knew, because of course I knew virtually everything that came up in that class from my extensive reading, but that in her moment of panic she turned to me. And then I let her down. I'm sorry, Mrs. R!