title: The Swedish plan of the Siege of Krakow in 1655
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Łopatecki, Karol
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Krawczuk, Wojciech
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-04-19T17:14:00Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-04-19T17:14:00Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Łopatecki K., Krawczuk W. The Swedish plan of the Siege of Krakow in 1655. Scandinavian Philology, 2021, vol. 19, issue 2, pp. 400–421.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2021.212
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/36188
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In this article we present an unknown map of Krakow and its surroundings with
  an attached description in Swedish, which is stored in the Riksarkivet, the National
  Archives of Sweden (Stockholm). We are scrutinizing the circumstances in which this
  work came into being, which indicates that the source was created between 1 and 7 October
  1655, making it the oldest known map with an attached legend presenting not
  only Krakow, but also the adjacent towns of Kleparz and Kazimierz and the suburb of
  Stradom. This document was attached to an unpreserved letter that was probably sent
  to the Scandinavian Peninsula. We present this relic as an attempt to depict war events
  in an epistolographic message through a two-dimensional representation of space with
  a legend. We place this against the broader background of changes in worldviews at
  that time, shaped by increasingly popular atlases and printed maps. This work had no
  tactical significance, nor was it used in propaganda of the Swedish Empire. Its main
  purpose was to document epoch-making events. The map and legend were to complement
  the epistolographic message, common in correspondence of the diplomatic and
  military elites of the 17th century. The author must have been an educated person with
  considerable spatial imagination. This person’s intellectual horizons are evidenced by,
  among others, knowledge of the chorography of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by Szymon Starowolski (Kolonia 1632 and Gdańsk 1652). The map was presumably
  made by Matthias Palbitzki, a diplomat and art connoisseur.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This paper was written as part of a research project funded by the National Science
  Centre OPUS-16 (contract no. UMO-2018/31/B/HS3/00846), entitled “Social
  and Economic Significance of Military Camps and Garrisons in the Polish-Lithuanian
  Commonwealth (16th–18th centuries)” [“Społeczne i gospodarcze znaczenie obozów
  i garnizonów wojskowych w państwie polsko-litewskim (XVI–XVIII wiek)”].
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 19; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legend (cartography)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: critical cartography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: epistolography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Second Northern War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Swedes in Poland
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Krakow
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: documentation of wars of the early modern period
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: chorography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Swedish plan of the Siege of Krakow in 1655
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
resources.filename: 400-421.pdf
resources.url: https://dspace.spbu.ru/bitstream/11701/36188/3/400-421.pdf
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