The Mapping of a Russian War: The Atlas of the Principality of Polatsk by Stanisław Pachołowiecki (1580)

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. Front Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Abbreviations Maps Chronological Table Notes on Transcription and Spelling List of Figures List of Polish Papers Pachołowiecki’s Maps Introduction Part 1 The Atlas Chapter 1 Description of the Atlas Chapter 2 State of Research Chapter 3 Transcriptions and Translations Chapter 4 Cartographic Representations of the Siege of Polatsk Chapter 5 Philology of a Map—the Tools for Tracing Maps’ History Part 2 Military Aspects Chapter 6 Descriptio Ducatus Polocensis as a Military Map Chapter 7 Pachołowiecki’s Set as a Uniform Cartographic Composition Chapter 8 Pachołowiecki’s Maps and Tactical Planning Part 3 Propaganda, Politics, and Knowledge Construction Chapter 9 Maps in the Polish War-Time Propaganda Chapter 10 Renaissance Textual Genres and Pachołowiecki’s Maps Chapter 11 Whose Principality of Polatsk? Texts and Pretexts of the Power Dispute Chapter 12 Polotia recepta—Celebrating the Triumph Conclusions Epilogue Bibliography Indices Index of Place Names Index of Personal Names Back Cover