Anders Engberg-Pedersen

Krieg und Militär: Kriegsatmosphären. Stendhals La Chartreuse de Parme im Kontext von Clausewitz’ Kriegstheorie und Minards thematischer Karthographie

Im dritten Jahr des Peloponnesischen Krieges segelten siebenundvierzig korinthische Schiffe im Golf von Krissa an der Kuste entlang. Plotzlich wurden sie von zwanzig Schiffen der athenischen Flotte umzingelt. Weil die korinthischen Schiffe zahlenmasig weit uberlegen waren, hatten weder ihre Kommandanten noch ihre Verbundeten mit einem Angriff gerechnet. Die Athener aber segelten immer naher an sie heran. Als Verteidigungsmasnahme bildeten die Korinther mit ihren Schiffen einen Kreis, wobei die Schiffe Seite an Seite mit dem Bug gegen ihren Feind angeordnet wurden.

Critique of Cartographic Reason: Tolstoj on the Media of War

Abstract The military efforts during the Napoleonic Wars gave rise to a large-scale cartographic enterprise across the European continent. As a medium of war, military maps served the purpose of orchestrating the “grand operations” of several distinct army corps in space. After the wars, however, the maps migrate into a different medium: the literary text. This article examines how Tolstois War and Peace grapples with a central problem for the 19th century novel, viz. the role of different media, literary and cartographic, in the representation and management of large-scale war. Tolstoi, the author argues, transposes the military conflict to the representational level and stages a struggle between the two media and the different military theories of the time that accompany them. Operating at this meta-level, War and Peace serves as a highly complex and self-conscious examination of the media of war.

Sketching War: August von Larisch’s Collection of Field Maps from the Russian Campaign of 1812

Abstract During the Napoleonic Wars the military croquis, or sketch map, played an important role in the spatial management of the various campaigns. Presumably, many of these sketch maps were destroyed or discarded after their immediate use. Those that survive have received little scholarly notice. Attention is drawn in this article to a large and well-documented collection produced during the campaign in Russia in 1812 and subsequently amassed by the Saxon cartographer Ferdinand Heinrich August von Larisch. The operational value of the military croquis is examined and the relationship between cartographic poetics and historical representation considered.