Dracula - Matei Cazacu

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Résumé :
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....

Biographie:
Matei Cazacu, Ph.D. (1979), Universit? de Paris, is a research scholar at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris. He has published over twenty books and numerous articles on medieval Balkan, Byzantine, Ottoman, and Romanian history and culture. His most recent book is Ioan Basarab (c. 1310-1352): A Romanian Prince at the Beginnings of Wallachia (2013).
Stephen Reinert, Ph.D. (1981), University of California at Los Angeles, is an associate professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. His most recent book is Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Studies (2014).

Sommaire:
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....