Some Notes on the Putsch Map (“Europa Regina”) and its Depiction of Southeastern Europe

Uzelac, Aleksandar (2025) Some Notes on the Putsch Map (“Europa Regina”) and its Depiction of Southeastern Europe. East Central Europe: Between the Baltic and the Adriatic, 1. pp. 213-228. ISSN 3058-0501

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Abstract

This paper examines a_series of anthropomorphic maps depicting Europe in the_form of a_woman, now collectively referred to as Europa Regina. The_first such map was created by Johannes Putsch of Innsbruck (1516–1542) as a_visual accompaniment to his poem Europa Lamentans, dedicated to Archduke Ferdinand I of Habsburg and his brother, Charles V. The_concept gained widespread popularity through adaptations of Putsch’s map, including a_more detailed version by Matthias Quad and Johann Bussemacher, printed in Cologne in 1587, and two smaller, simplified versions featured in Heinrich Bünting’s Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (1587) and Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1588). Previously, the_ earliest known version of Putsch’s map was thought to have been printed in Paris in 1537. However, in 2019, an_ earlier edition printed in 1534 – now kept in the_Retz Museum in Lower Austria – was (re)discovered. Along with describing this map and the_ circumstances of its rediscovery, this article will examine the_ representation of the_ southeastern regions of the_European continent in Putsch’s map and its derivatives. It is suggested that Putsch, in addition to drawing from Ptolemaic geography, was probably familiar with Lázár Deák’s Tabula Hungariae (1528)

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