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

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CONTEMPORARY SCHOLARS AGREE THAT THE WARFARE that ravaged Europe between 1792 and 1815 was as formative for the culture of the period as the French and Industrial Revolutions. The Napoleonic Age has been described as the moment at which sustained international conflict became an "all-engrossing spectacle"1 that structured communal existence such that a militarized society became the norm, an everyday affair under "whose reign we may still be living today.2 Such claims are supported by the work of military historians, who generally view the Napoleonic Era as the first time that entire nations ...

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