Eryk Dahlberg i Samuel Pufendorf – postulaty badawcze

The work on translation of S. Pufendorf De rebus a Carolo Gustavo, Sueciae rege, gestis commentariorum libri septem [A monumental memorial for King Charles Gustav of Sweden] published in Nuremberg 1696 is near the end. This book, decorated with wonderful illustrations, drawings based on the E. Dahlberg is a mine of knowledge on the Great Northern War 1655-1660. Confrontation with the image of that era created by later historians is the basic research problem, both for Pufendorf’s text and Dahlberg’s illustrations. However, it is not only about an indication of errors, since errors occur always. Much more interesting is the reconstruction of the source workshop of both artists and their way of thinking. However, many researchers analyzed Dahlberg’s engravings in Polish historiography, there is no proper picture of the whole series of drawings on the Polish war.