18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 38

[cahn]

Gonna go ahead and make this post even though Yuletide is coming...

But in the meantime, there has been some fic in the fandom posted!

Holding His Space (2503 words) by felisnocturna
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF, 18th Century CE Frederician RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf/Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Characters: Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Additional Tags: Protectiveness, Domestic, Character Study
Summary:

Five times Fredersdorf has to stay behind - and one time Friedrich doesn't leave.

Using People (3392 words) by prinzsorgenfrei
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great/Hans Hermann von Katte
Characters: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Hans Hermann von Katte
Additional Tags: Fluff, Idiots in Love, reading plays aloud while gazing into each others eyes
Summary:

Friedrich had started to talk to him because he had thought of him as a bit of a ditz.
And now here he was. Here he was months later, bundled up in this very same man’s blankets with a cup of hot coffee in front of him, its scent mixing with that of Katte’s French perfume.
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Fluffy One Shot about one traitorous Crown Prince and the sycophant he accidentally fell for.

Comments

Re: More Peter Keith findings

[mildred_of_midgard]

But I have a bit of pity for McDonogh, despite him being the origin; all these many Keiths in the life of Fritz are bound to confuse!

I have pity too! Kloosterhuis hadn't even published his Katte monograph yet, so it's not like MacDonogh could have checked it. And I feel like if the monograph had been available, MacDonogh would have used it. I used to bash on MacDonogh at the beginning of salon, but the more salon has continued, the more I've come to appreciate his good points. Yes, he's borderline no homo, yes, he makes mistakes, no, his style isn't especially readable, yes, he uncritically copies his take on the siblings from Pangels--but his selection of sources and citation of same comes out looking pretty good compared to other biographers.

I know that if I manage to learn French properly and get my German reading speed (and especially evil font reading speed) up, I will learn a *lot* just going through MacDonogh's sources and reading for context in the passages he cites. (I hate him for not having a bibliography, just full citations in the first occurrence in the notes and abbreviated citations later, which makes it monstrously difficult to browse and see what his sources are, but I still have hopes of doing this source-reading exercise someday.)

Pugh: Oooh, I hadn't known that poem before either. Poor Katte. It does capture his tragedy. </33