Framing conflict. Maps of the Ottoman-habsburg Long War
Author(s)
Marian Coman
Date Issued
2025
Type
article
Volume
8
Start Page
17
End Page
40
Journal
Abstract
This article investigates how Western European mapmakers addressed the cartographic challenge of mapping the theatre of the Ottoman-Habsburg Long War. Although most simply sought to circumvent this spatial conundrum, some mapmakers directly confronted it, seeking a viable solution. My contention is that, of the three cartographic genres involved in the process, the most innovative was the news map. The article has a twofold structure. In the first part, I identify the main centres of cartographic production related to the Long War (such as Augsburg, Frankfurt, Köln, and Nuremberg) and briefly discuss the relationship between printed and manuscript maps. In the second part, I examine the spatial frames used by different cartographic genres, focusing on a series of news maps and propaganda maps produced between 1593 and 1595. My main argument is that the mapping of the Long War was a key moment in the making of a new cartographic genre, that of the theatre of war.
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