{"title":"Early Modern History","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"john-speed-s-map-of-poland-1626","title":"John Speed’s Map of Poland, 1626: First Issue with Views of Kraków, Gdańsk \u0026 Poznań","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpeed, John (1552–1629).\u003cbr\u003eA Newe Mape of Poland\u003cbr\u003eLondon: George Humble, 1626\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first issue of John Speed’s Map of Poland, one of the most decorative and desirable early maps of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, here an especially fine example with vivid contemporary hand-colouring in excellent condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished during the height of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Speed’s map gave an English audience one of the most memorable seventeenth-century representations of Poland. It is surrounded by six finely engraved views of Kraków, Gdańsk, Poznań, Krosno, Sandomierz and Wrocław, together with eight figures illustrating Polish, Silesian and Gdańsk dress, the arms of Poland and Silesia, and a small portrait of King Sigismund III Vasa. 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The present tract reflects that context: a polemical work challenging papal authority and certain practices of the early modern Roman Catholic Church. It was written during Luther’s seclusion at the Wartburg following his condemnation at the Diet of Worms. It examines confession and the extent of papal authority over the Christian conscience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted books of this kind played an important role in the dissemination of Reformation thought. Relatively inexpensive to produce and distribute when compared to manuscripts and larger printed works, they allowed theological and polemical writings to circulate rapidly throughout Europe. Consequently, comparatively few survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present edition bears a false Wittenberg imprint; it was actually printed in Strasbourg by Wolfgang Köpfel. 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