Dracula / / by Matei Cazacu ; edited, with an introduction, by Stephen W. Reinert ; translations from the French, etc. by Nicole Mordarski, Stephen W. Reinert, Alice Brinton, and Catherine Healey.

• Superior document: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Volume 46
• VerfasserIn: Cazacu, Matei,
• TeilnehmendeR: Reinert, Stephen W.,; Mordarski, Nicole,; Healey, Catherine,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English; French
• Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; Volume 46.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (491 pages) :; illustrations, map.
• Notes: "Editions Tallandier, 2011."

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

Preliminary Material -- Exile as a Way of Life -- A Prince and His Sons (1436–1448) -- First Reign and New Exile (1448–1456) -- The Reign (1456–1462) -- The Conqueror of Constantinople -- Propaganda, Exile, and Death (1463–1476) -- Tyrant or Great Sovereign? -- Dracula and Bram Stoker -- The Vampire in Romania -- Conclusion -- Chronology -- Geschichte Dracole Waide (Anonymous, 1463) -- Von ainem wutrich der hies Trakle waida von der Walachei (Michel Beheim, 1463, or as late as 1466) -- ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞEΙΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΩΝ (Laonikos Chalkokondyles, c. 1423–c. 1474) Historiarum Demonstrationes (Proofs of History) -- Skazanie o Drakule voevode (Fyodor Kuritsyn, 1486) -- Die Geschicht Dracole Waide (Anonymous, 1488) -- Glossary of Terms -- Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index of Personal Names.