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Dracula, by Matei Cazacu

irst published in French in 2004, this book is one of the most scholarly and comprehensive historical weaves excerpts from primary sources with clear explanations and historical contextual- ization from which emerges a rich picture of Vlad III and his times, still little known in full by modern audiences. The Appendices contain a chronology of relevant events in Wallachian history, key events in Vlad’s life, as well as details about scholarly work on the topic during the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries; full transcriptions and translations of key primary texts; key terms; relevant illustrations; and an updated bibliography.

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