Frederick the Great and Other 18th-C Characters, Discussion Post 31

[cahn]

And in this post:

-luzula is going to tell us about the Jacobites and the '45!

-I'm going to finish reading Nancy Goldstone's book about Maria Theresia and (some of) her children Maria Christina, Maria Carolina, and Marie Antoinette, In the Shadow of the Empress, and selenak is going to tell us all the things wrong with the last four chapters (spoiler: in the first twenty chapters there have been many, MANY things wrong)!

-mildred_of_midgard is going to tell us about Charles XII of Sweden and the Great Northern War

(seriously, how did I get so lucky to have all these people Telling Me Things, this is AWESOME)

-oh, and also there will be Yuletide signups :D

Comments

Re: First Part of the '45 (up to Derby)

[luzula]

Heh, my German is non-existent. BTW, if you need any help with Swedish while reading up on Charles XII, let me know. Though despite being Swedish, I don't know much about him--my main association is that unfortunately he has been adopted as a mascot by Nazis over here.

Orders of magnitude better than I was as a high school student circa 2000!

I can imagine! Yes, there's certainly a lot of primary sources available, though not always the ones one is looking for. I just finished reading Burt's Letters from the North of Scotland from the 1730's, for general context. It has some great descriptions of the building of Wade's roads!

Re: First Part of the '45 (up to Derby)

[mildred_of_midgard]

BTW, if you need any help with Swedish while reading up on Charles XII, let me know.

Oh, neat! Thanks, I will. (You don't happen to know any Russian, do you? Because while I might have a prayer at making heads or tails of Swedish, Russian is way out of my league.)

my main association is that unfortunately he has been adopted as a mascot by Nazis over here.

Ugh. This is what in the Fritz fandom we call "The Worst Fanboys."

Re: First Part of the '45 (up to Derby)

[luzula]

Sorry, no Russian! I have a number of Russian colleagues, but I don't know them well enough to ask such a thing...

Re: First Part of the '45 (up to Derby)

[mildred_of_midgard]

It was a long shot! (There's a Russian Peter III fan on DW/A03 I keep trying to get to join salon, or at least recommend me some books about Russian history, but she hasn't been inclined to do either.)