methinks MT had at least an inkling there might be something in these papers Joseph shouldn't read.
Wooooow. It does seem like the natural inference. Now I'm wondering what MT thought as she read all of Isabella's papers. And I really want MT-Isabella fic, because it sounds like Isabella might not have been quite as opaque as she might have thought she was when dealing with MT, who of course was also an extremely smart and perceptive person (Joseph being smart but... maybe not quite as perceptive in a lot of ways), and who had the advantage of years of experience by the time Isabella showed up.
Thank you for your opinions on the biographies! I did some digging around and found that the Stollberg-Rilinger is supposed to be published in English translation by Princeton University Press in 2019, yay! (I know, academic publishing, this means that it might be anytime in the next five years with the clock starting in 2019, but hey, at least someone is probably working on it even as we speak!) I am so getting this when it comes out :D
I also found this from her website: "There is no current scientific biography of [Friedrich Wilhelm I]; the last one is from 1941 and covers only the youth years until the accession of the throne. I believe that it could be interesting in a new way today to turn to a ruler who played the role of elitist despiser and cultivated a bizarre outsider habit." (Google translate of the German.) Huh! I'm gonna say I'm not interested in buying that book, but an interesting project.
Isabella and Stollberg-Rilinger
Wooooow. It does seem like the natural inference. Now I'm wondering what MT thought as she read all of Isabella's papers. And I really want MT-Isabella fic, because it sounds like Isabella might not have been quite as opaque as she might have thought she was when dealing with MT, who of course was also an extremely smart and perceptive person (Joseph being smart but... maybe not quite as perceptive in a lot of ways), and who had the advantage of years of experience by the time Isabella showed up.
Thank you for your opinions on the biographies! I did some digging around and found that the Stollberg-Rilinger is supposed to be published in English translation by Princeton University Press in 2019, yay! (I know, academic publishing, this means that it might be anytime in the next five years with the clock starting in 2019, but hey, at least someone is probably working on it even as we speak!) I am so getting this when it comes out :D
I also found this from her website: "There is no current scientific biography of [Friedrich Wilhelm I]; the last one is from 1941 and covers only the youth years until the accession of the throne. I believe that it could be interesting in a new way today to turn to a ruler who played the role of elitist despiser and cultivated a bizarre outsider habit." (Google translate of the German.) Huh! I'm gonna say I'm not interested in buying that book, but an interesting project.