Medieval Warfare Magazine

Editor-in-chief: Jasper Oorthuys Editor: Peter Konieczny Assistant editor: Alice Sullivan Proofreader: Naomi Munts Design & media: Christy Beall Design © 2020 Karwansaray Publishers Contributors: Ruth R. Brown, Sidney E. Dean, Stephen Donnachie, John

This particular issue of Medieval Warfare owes a lot to Alice Isabella Sullivan, our Assistant Editor. As an expert in the medieval history of the Balkans, Alice was well versed in this issue’s theme: Vlad III of Wallachia, better known as Dracula. S

What is behind “Dracula"? After all the popular accounts that have elevated the Wallachian voivode to a mythical figure, historians can now provide facts. A German-Romanian team formed around the University of Giessen in Germany has been working sinc

First published in French in 2004, this book is one of the most scholarly and comprehensive historical studies on Vlad III, his times, and afterlives. Cazacu details Vlad’s early life, his reigns and exiles, his conflicts with the Ottomans and other

Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker - the author who reimagined and propelled Vlad III as Dracula onto the international scene – is of Irish heritage, born in Dublin on 8 November 1847. Although he published his first short story at 24 years of age and wrote many

Possibly the most famous medieval wrought-iron cannon, Mons Meg is preserved at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. She is some 404 cm (13’ 3”) long and she fired a stone shot some 46 cm (18”) in diameter weighing in the region of 130 kg (290 lb). However,

Following his victories in Serbia and Bosnia, Vlad the Im- paler wished to seize the throne of Wallachia for a third time. However, support from his overlord, Matthias Corvinus, in terms of money and men, was lacking. It would be early November of 14

It is really very striking how little was written in English, until quite recently, on the history of medieval warfare. Before the late nineteenth century there was a good deal of writing about war, but little was about medieval history. The Classica

Dracula: Essays on the Life and Times of Vlad the Impaler Edited by Kurt W. Treptow The Center for Romanian Studies, 2019 ISBN: 978-1592110094 The Ottoman ‘Wild West’: The Balkan Frontier in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries By Nikolay Antov Camb