In the World of Vlad
The Lives and Times of a Warlord
Alexandru Simon
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Alexandru Simon, In the World of Vlad (2021), Frank & Timme, Berlin, ISBN: 9783732991662
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Beschreibung / Abstract
The life (in fact the lives) of Vlad III „the Impaller“ or „Dracula“ is a Rorschach test. Everybody sees what they want to see in the “documentary stains”. And these “stains” are expanding. Based on research in the archives and libraries of Budapest, Dubrovnik, Genoa, Mantua, Milan, Modena, Munich, Rome, Venice and Vienna, the book focuses on the conflictive medieval, and modern images created by the clash between the classical pictures of Vlad and the still preserved coeval sources.
Beschreibung
Alexandru Simon is Research Professor at the Centre for Transylvanian Studies of the Romanian Academy in Cluj-Napoca. His recent publications include: „Valachorum regulus“ (2017), „Re de Dacia“ (2018, with Ioan-Aurel Pop), and as co-editor „Reform and Renewal in Medieval East and Central Europe (2019, with Suzana Miljan and Éva B. Halász).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- BEGINN
- Noli me tangere
- I Lands and Lords of Illusions
- The Triangle of the Year Thousand and the Three Seas in the East
- Mission, Authority and Division
- Cause, Effect and Change
- Time, Space and Belonging
- Substance, Legitimacy and Action
- Sigismund of Luxemburg and the Wallachian Princely “Stars† of the Fifteenth Century
- The Princely Wallachian Roots and Claims of John Hunyadi
- Moldavia and the Heirs of DragoŠŸ (of MaramureŠŸ) and Voicu (of Hunyad)
- Wallachian Dynastic Alliances
- Sigismund of Luxemburg and the Rise of the Hunyadis
- Lasting Falls and Wishful Recoveries
- The Genoese Recovery of Constantinople
- The Ottoman Conquest of Caffa
- At the End of a Crusader Dream
- II  Propaganda and Matrimony
- In the Aftermath of an Apotheosis
- From Victory to Murder
- From Fear to Fear
- From Loss to Legend
- The Hungarian Ladies of Dracula
- Under the Ides of March
- A Caged Scarecrow
- Road to Perdition
- Fatal Flaws
- The Pope, the Hunyadis and the Wallachians
- Political Context and Papal Wording
- Humanist Statesmanship and the Corrupt Nature of the Wallachians
- The Pontifical Hunyadi File
- The Knowledgeable Pope
- III  Forgotten Records
- Ragusa and Draculia†™s Final Journey to Wallachia
- The Muslim Anti-Ottoman Front in Asia Minor and the Christian Anti-Ottoman Front in Vlachia Maior
- The Royal Revival of Matthias Corvinus and the Rise of the Wallachians against the Hight Porte
- The “Rival Histories† of the Crusade of Matthias Corvinus and Stephen III the Great
- The Republic of Saint James at the Beginning and at the End of the Last Rule of Vlad III the Impaller
- Crusading in the Time of the Plague
- Text and Context
- The Crusader Front in Moldavia
- The “Pawns† and “Pillars† of Crusading
- Mehmed II†™s Return to Moldovia in 1476 and the Death of the King of Dacia
- An Imperial Order issued in the Land of the Wallachians
- The Un-credited Victory over the Sultan
- A King dies
- Voivode Dracula between Matthias Corvinus†™ Dacia and Nicholas of ModruŠ¡†™ Gothia
- The Infamous Wallachian Instrument of the Low-born Hunyadi Monarch
- Vlad III and Matthias Corvinus†™ Kingdom of Dacia
- The Roman Arrogance of the Primitive Wallachians
- Exercito di Bayseto in Valachia, roto da Uracula Wayvoda