Frederick the Great: A Singular Life, Variably Reflected

Peter Paret

DOI:10.1353/hsp.2012.0011

Corpus ID: 161323897

Frederick the Great: A Singular Life, Variably Reflected

@article{Paret2012FrederickTG,
  title={Frederick the Great: A Singular Life, Variably Reflected},
  author={Peter Paret},
  journal={Historically Speaking},
  year={2012},
  volume={13},
  pages={29 - 33}
}

Peter Paret

Published 2012

History

Historically Speaking

than temporary and regional significance. He matters to the history of the 18th century, influenced events beyond it, and may be said to remain relevant to our concerns today in the way earlier responses to such social and political issues as the relations between government and subject—now citizen—have meaning for later generations. That a kind of mythology soon developed around Frederick—further setting him apart from other rulers of the time, his uncle George II, for instance, or Louis XV… CONTINUE READING

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