WHO IS LYING ABOUT WHERE “RUSSIA” LIES? SOME NOTES ON 16TH-CENTURY POLISH GHOSTMAPPING OF MUSCOVY

• Authors: FRANCZAK GRZEGORZ
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper focuses on one particular aspect of the way in which 16th-century Polish authors ghostmapped the European East: the semantics assumed by the choronym “Russia” in Renaissance cartography which reflected the long‐lasting rivalry between Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Muscovy for the possession of the territories of the former Kievan Rus’. After a brief sketch of the theoretical and historical framework, I provide an overview of European cartographical texts, from Beneventano to Waldseemüller and Mercator, influenced by the Polish ghostmappers of Muscovy – Wapowski, Miechowita, and Strubicz – who tried to narrow the toponym “Russia” to the lands controlled by Poland and Lithuania.aciej Miechowita, Bernard Wapowski.

Keywords

EN

RENAISSANCE CARTOGRAPHY; GHOSTMAPPING; MUSCOVY; MACIEJ MIECHOWITA; BERNARD WAPOWSKI

• Publisher: Associazione Italiana Polonisti (AIP)
• Journal: pl.it / rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 133-162

Contributors

author

FRANCZAK GRZEGORZ

• University of Milan