'The cultural self-fashioning of Frederick the Great'

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• Prof. Tim Blanning FBA, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
• Tuesday 08 December 2015, 17:45-19:15
• Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

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This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

The impressive material assets Frederick inherited when he came to the throne of Prussia in 1740 were counter-balanced by the serious psychological damage inflicted by his father’s astonishingly brutal regime. This illustrated lecture will discuss how he then set about creating for himself an environment in which he could recover his self-respect and express his cultural and sexual preferences.

This talk is part of the Wolfson College Humanities Society talks series.

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