The Pace of the Attack: Military Experience in Schiller’s Wallenstein and Die Jungfrau von Orleans

Mieszkowski, Jan

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2009

DOI: 10.1353/gyr.0.0001

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The Pace of the Attack: Military Experience in Schiller’s Wallenstein and Die Jungfrau von Orleans

Jan Mieszkowski¹

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Wallenstein's Contingency Media

Engberg-Pedersen

2018

Romanticism

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In the history of warfare various media and technologies have been devised both to enable contingent events in the form of scenarios and simulations and to reign them in and bring the proliferation of possible futures under control. War games, horoscopes, astrolabes, celestial and topographical maps have in different ways served as ‘contingency media’, i.e. tools that enable strategic thought and action under conditions of uncertainty. Through the prism of Schiller's Wallenstein from 1799, this essay examines the development of military contingency media from the 17th to the early 19th century. Delving into the disagreements between Johannes Kepler and the historical Wallenstein about the reach and power of astrological star charts and horoscopes, the essay analyzes Schiller's late Enlightenment critique of astrological contingency media as well as his transformation of them into productive poetic devices. Finally, it situates the play in the context of military theory around 1800 in which contingency emerged as a central factor of large-scale warfare. A historically complex document, Wallenstein serves as an archive of the shifting conceptions of war and of the media devised to manage its uncertain futures.

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Wallenstein's Contingency Media

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2018

Romanticism

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