Dracula
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Dracula
（East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 46）
Brill, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-444) and indexes
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Description
Originally published in French in 2004, Matei Cazacu's Dracula remains the most authoritative scholarly biography of the Wallachian prince Vlad III the Impaler (1448, 1456-1462, 1476). Its core is an exhaustively researched reconstruction of Dracula's life and political career, using original sources in more than nine languages. In addition Cazacu traces Dracula's metamorphosis, at the hands of contemporary propagandists, into variously a bloodthirsty tyrant, and an early modern "great sovereign." Beyond this Cazacu explores Dracula's transformation into "the vampire prince" in literature, film and folklore, with surprising new discoveries on Bram Stoker's sources for his novel. In this first English translation, the text and bibliography are updated, and readers are provided with an appendix of the key sources for Dracula's life, in fresh and accurate English translations.
Table of Contents
Preface to the 2004 Edition, by Matei Cazacu
Introduction to the 2004 Edition, by Matei Cazacu
Introduction to the English Translation, by Stephen W. Reinert
Abbreviations
List of Illustrations, Genealogies, and Map
Map and Genealogies
1 Exile as a Way of Life
"A Fortress on the Water"
The Basarab Dynasty
Mircea the Old
The Ottoman Danger
Wallachia-Strategic and Economic Issues
The Succession Crisis of 1420
Vlad Dracul's Youth
Transylvania, Land of Welcome
Vlad Dracul, Protector of Transylvanians
Finally, the Throne of Wallachia
2 A Prince and His Sons (1436-1448)
A Peace Treaty with Murad II
The Remarriage of Vlad Dracul
Murad II's 1438 Campaign in Transylvania
Vladislav, King of Poland and Hungary
Janos Hunyadi, Defender of the Transylvanian Frontier
Vlad Dracul, Prisoner of the Turks
The Disaster of Varna
The Campaign of 1445 on the Danube
The Conflict with Janos Hunyadi and the Death of Vlad Dracul
Vladislav II Installed on the Wallachian Throne
3 First Reign and New Exile (1448-1456)
A Transylvanian Childhood
A Wallachian Adolescence
Hostage in Ottoman Territory (1444-1448)
Dracula's First Reign (1448)
Exile in Moldavia
The Accord with Janos Hunyadi
4 The Reign (1456-1462)
"Mark of Red Iron"
"A Fierce and Dreadful Appearance"
The Princely Council of Wallachia
Wallachian Society in the Fifteenth Century
Very Restless Neighbors
"To Rule and Govern Accordingly"
Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary (1458)
Vlad Dracula Alone Against Everyone
Bloody Easter
"And Beheaded Him Near His Tomb . . ."
A Moldavian Danger?
5 The Conqueror of Constantinople
Five Hundred Young Men
Dracula's Danubian Campaign
Alone Against the Turks
Warrior of the Night
Radu the Handsome Assumes Power
Crusade or Internal Peace?
6 Propaganda, Exile, and Death (1463-1476)
The Improbable Treachery
The 1463 German Pamphlet
The Hungarian Manipulation
Dracula's Liberation
"But He Was Pierced by Many Lances . . ."
A Face Covered With a Silk Cloth
Vlad and Mihnea: The Children of "The Devil"
The Descendants of the Sons of the Impaler
7 Tyrant or Great Sovereign?
The Evolving Die Geschicht Dracole Waide (The History of Voievod Dracula)
The Incarnation of Evil
A Pious Prince?
Dracula "The Beloved"
Discovery of the Russian Accounts of Dracula
The Tale of Voievod Dracula, A Political Manual Used by Ivan III
Laonikos Chalkokondyles
In the Entourage of Mahmud Pasha
Chalkokondyles' Disappearance
8 Dracula and Bram Stoker
Of Bats in General . . .
. . . and of Dracula in Particular
"Not On the Lips But On the Throat . . ."
Stoker a Plagiarist?
Marie Nizet and her Captain Vampire
The Romanian "Journey" of Marie Nizet
A Family History
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
A New Golden Age
9 The Vampire in Romania
How to Proceed with a Strigoi
The Vampire's Identity Card
The Christianization of Vampirism
Vitamin C, Weapon Against Vampires
Conclusion
Dead Vampires and Living Vampires
Appendix
Chronology
Geschichte Dracole Waide (Anonymous, 1463)
Von ainem wutrich der hies Trakle waida von der Walachei (Michel Beheim, 1416-1474)
E : Historiarum Demonstrationes (Laonikos Chalkokondyles c. 1423-c.1474)
Skazanie o Dracole voevode (Fyodor Kuritsyn 1486)
Die Geschicht Dracole Waide (Anonymous, 1488)
Glossary
Illustrations
Bibliography
Index
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