Yet another awesome write-up that I have read and not had time to reply to!
Not to dig myself deeper into this hole :P, but there's now a 2007 dissertation by Judith Matzke on Saxon diplomatic service 1694-1763 in the library. I turned it up about a year ago in my Suhm research, and found it useful enough for my purposes that I put it on my reading list, but since we're getting to know some more envoys these days, and since it's going to be mooooonths before my German is fast enough *and* I've gotten through the items higher on my reading list...it's there if you want to take a look and see if it has anything of interest to salon. (It's a 400+ page dissertation, it may be dry as dust. But also it has a nearly 50 page bibliography, so maybe it'll point us somewhere interesting.)
With luck, I should be able to participate in salon and chip away at the backlog this weekend. The amount of work I'll have to do is less than I anticipated (though still some).
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Re: Le Diable: The Political Biography - B
Date: 2021-03-13 12:47 am (UTC)Not to dig myself deeper into this hole :P, but there's now a 2007 dissertation by Judith Matzke on Saxon diplomatic service 1694-1763 in the library. I turned it up about a year ago in my Suhm research, and found it useful enough for my purposes that I put it on my reading list, but since we're getting to know some more envoys these days, and since it's going to be mooooonths before my German is fast enough *and* I've gotten through the items higher on my reading list...it's there if you want to take a look and see if it has anything of interest to salon. (It's a 400+ page dissertation, it may be dry as dust. But also it has a nearly 50 page bibliography, so maybe it'll point us somewhere interesting.)
With luck, I should be able to participate in salon and chip away at the backlog this weekend. The amount of work I'll have to do is less than I anticipated (though still some).