Print version: Niedzwiedz, Jakub. Mapping of a Russian War : the Atlas of the Principality of Polatsk by Stanislaw Pacholowiecki (1580). First edition. Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, c2025 247 pages Mapping the Past Series ; Volume 5 ISBN 9789004705586
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.