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The Mapping of a Russian War : the Atlas of the Principality of Polatsk by Stanislaw Pacholowiecki (1580) / Jakub Niedzwiedz, Karol Lopatecki, and Grzegorz Franczak.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Niedźwiedź, Jakub, author.
Łopatecki, Karol, author.
Franczak, Grzegorz, author.
Series:
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Mapping the Past ; 5.
Mapping the Past Series ; Volume 5
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Pachołowiecki, Stanisław.
Livonian War, 1557-1582--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Livonian War, 1557-1582.
Livonian War, 1557-1582--Historiography.
Military maps.
Cartography--Poland--History--16th century.
Cartography.
Military geography--Poland--History--16th century.
Military geography.
Military geography--Belarus--Polatsk--History--16th century.
Poland--History, Military.
Poland.
Polatsk (Belarus)--History, Military.
Polatsk (Belarus).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (247 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2025]
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This volume is a comprehensive analysis of the Atlas of the Principality of Polatsk (1580), one of the oldest cartographic representations of the military conflict between Russia (Muscovy) and the Western world. Its author, the Polish royal cartographer Stanisław Pachołowiecki, drew the maps at the beginning of the Livonian War (1579–1582) when the Polish-Lithuanian army liberated the Lithuanian and Livonian lands from Muscovian occupation. The Mapping of a Russian War focuses on the military aspects of the maps, their political and propaganda use, and the Early Modern construction of the past through maps. The authors present an innovative approach to these maps, rarely examined by the international research community.
Contents:
Description of the atlas
State of research
Transcriptions and translations
Cartographic representations of the Siege of Polatsk
Philology of a map : the tools for tracing maps' history
Descriptio Ducatus Polocensis as a military map
Pacholowiecki's set as a uniform cartographic composition
Pacholowiecki's maps and tactical planning
Maps in the Polish war-time propaganda
Renaissance textual genres and Pacholowiecki's maps
Whose principality of Polatsk? Texts and pretexts of the power dispute
Polotia recepta : celebrating the triumph.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9789004716063
9004716068
Publisher Number:
10.1163/9789004716063 DOI

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