Polska szesnastowieczna propaganda wojenna w działaniu: przypadek Atlasu Księstwa Połockiego (1580)
Polish 16th-century War-Time Propaganda in Action: The Case of Atlas Księstwa Połockiego (1580)
Author(s): Jakub Niedźwiedź Subject(s): Maps / Cartography, Military history, Political history, 16th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: history of cartography; Renaissance cartography; atlas; Polish Renaissance literature; Jan Zamoyski; Stephen Báthory; Polish-Lithuanian Commomwealth; Russia; Polotsk; Livonian War;
Summary/Abstract: The paper’s objective is to demonstrate: a) Stanisław Pachołowiecki’s Atlas Księstwa Połockiego (Rome 1580) as the first part of a major propaganda action conducted by the royal chancellery; b) the course of its publication; c) who was engaged in its production. At first, the author reminds that Atlas was made during the Livonian War. The main commissioners were King Stephen Báthory and Chancellor Jan Zamoyski. The next part presents the chief propagandistic text created by the Polish chancellery, Edictum regium de supplicationibus, printed in Polatsk in early September 1579. It is an account of the circumstances of the capture of the city by Stephen Báthory’s army. The author reviews the text’s distribution and translation into English among other languages. It turns out that Edictum, issued several times in 1579, provides the most significant context for the Atlas.
Journal: TERMINUS
- Issue Year: 19/2017
- Issue No: 3 (44)
- Page Range: 477-509
- Page Count: 33
- Language: Polish