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We now have a community, rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D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

[mildred_of_midgard]

Re: Preuß,in fairness, he did a lot of original research which later biographers drew from. As the edition of the Katte tribunal protocols says, he was the first biographer to have access to them

Yeah, he definitely seemed to be the most source-oriented guy I could find so early, which is why I grabbed him. Well, like you said, maybe more gems will turn up. And maybe it's worth scrolling through the five non-bio volumes just to see if there are any sources in there that we don't have access to through Trier, or if it's all just Fritz correspondence that he later published.