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Dracula

By: Matei Cazacu

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Dracula

By: Matei Cazacu

Cazacu's Dracula offers the most authoritative scholarly biography of Vlad III the Impaler (d. 1476), including how his imagery evolved from contemporary to modern times.

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457

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East Central and Eastern Europ

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ISBN 10

9004347259

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9789004347250

Dracula's Bloodline

A Florescu Family Saga

By: Radu R. Florescu,Matei Cazacu

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Dracula's Bloodline

A Florescu Family Saga

By: Radu R. Florescu,Matei Cazacu

This engrossing book tells the story of the Florescu family, from its feudal blood ties, to the notorious 15th century figure Vlad Tepes (Count Dracula), right up to present day, touching on such diverse personalities as the Kennedys, Bill Clinton, and Michael Jackson. In the tradition of Alex Haley’s Roots, Dracula’s Bloodline relates a multi-generational saga through the prism of one family’s narrative, from medieval Eastern Europe to the post-Communist era. The book provides an inside look at Romania’s bloody and turbulent history—a mostly untold narrative that embraces the cruel Ottoman invasions, vying boyars seeking to change the political order at home, and the toppling of the Ceausescu regime. The story of each century is told through the eyes of one Florescu (or more) who had a unique perch from which to view his or her contemporary society. Florescu and Cazacu drew on research that had mostly been kept in family hands. To track the Florescu footprint down through the centuries since the 1400s, they used many sources: the Brasov archives in Transylvania, select letters, unpublished diaries, and extensive family documents that have been scattered from Europe to the United States. This fully indexed book offers many photographs from family archives, as well as a glossary of terms and titles, and a full genealogy showing the Florescu’s family links to Vlad Tepes.

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326

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Rowman & Littlefield

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ISBN 10

0761861580

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9780761861584

Dracula's Bloodline

A Florescu Family Saga

By: Radu R. Florescu,Matei Cazacu

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A Florescu Family Saga

By: Radu R. Florescu,Matei Cazacu

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0761861580

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9780761861584

Dracula

By: Matei Cazacu

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Dracula

By: Matei Cazacu

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.

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491

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BRILL

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ISBN 10

9004349219

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9789004349216

Frankenstein

By: Matei Cazacu,Radu Florescu

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Frankenstein

By: Matei Cazacu,Radu Florescu

Frankenstein : la littérature lui a donné vie, le cinéma l’a pourvu d’un visage. Personnage éponyme du roman de Mary Shelley paru en 1818, il est entré dans l’imaginaire collectif où se confondent parfois créateur et créature. L’histoire de ce mythe devenu aussi effrayant qu’incontournable demeure pourtant méconnue. Villa Diodati, Cologny, 1816. Il était une fois un poète qui, lors d’une nuit sombre et pluvieuse sur les rives du Lac Léman, met au défi ses hôtes d’écrire la meilleure et la plus abominable histoire de fantôme. Ce poète n’est autre que Lord Byron, et parmi ses amis Mary Shelley. Pour bâtir son récit, la jeune femme puise dans la vie de Johann Conrad Dippel, un alchimiste et théologien allemand qui exerçait la médecine de manière excentrique. La rumeur court que l’homme, demeurant dans le château de Frankenstein, pratiquait autopsies et expériences médicales en tout genre : l’histoire peut commencer. Réalité et fiction s’unissent pour donner vie à Victor Frankenstein ! Dans un récit savamment orchestré, Matei Cazacu et Radu Florescu reviennent sur ce mythe ô combien célèbre et tentent de démêler le vrai du faux en perçant le mystère des origines du monstre.

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228

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Tallandier

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ISBN 13

9791021002005

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