Announcing Rheinsberg: Frederick the Great discussion post 10

[cahn]

So for anyone who is reading this and would like to learn more about Frederick the Great and his contemporaries, but who doesn't want to wade through 500k (600k?) words worth of comments and an increasingly sprawling comment section:

We now have a community, rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D

Comments

Re: With Liars among Liars: The Austrian Dossier (Seckendorf II)

[mildred_of_midgard]

Fritz not retaliating against anyone involved in Küstrin is a public gesture in the public eye and makes him look good, contributing to creating good will for the new monarch

Agreed, but! You could just as easily start off your reign with a "don't fuck with me" example, and Fritz chose to create goodwill instead.

If you ask me, the difference is that he didn't feel any of those people were a threat to him any more, and so he was able to reason about what would serve his interests best.

English translated Trenck renders the evil rumor he's refuting as the King supposedly being in bed with Demoiselle de Schwerin when Austrian Trenck shows up.

Aha! Well, good thing we acquired the English version, even if it is heavy on the rants and emo. The ghost dedication is priceless!

(I'm with you, Prussian Trenck: Pure slander, that one.)

And not even convincing slander! Fritz in bed with a woman in 1745, pfff. I'm still divided on whether he was even still going to bed with men in 1745!

Hence my slightly greater sympathy for the stiff upper lip favouring Gutenberg edition editor.

I find this very amusing. :D