#easterneurope

You literally cannot talk about vampires without bowing to Eastern Europe. Romania and the Balkans didn’t just give us the aesthetic; they gave us the corporeal revenants known as strigoi and moroi (Johnson, 2001), as well as their ultimate predators: the dhampir.

What I appreciate about Eastern European lore is how decisively unglamorous it is. You didn't become a strigoi by being bitten by a sexy aristocrat. Historically, legends of the undead returning to terrorize their families were often born out of mass hysteria surrounding tuberculosis (consumption) epidemics, where the unexplained spread of the disease was blamed on the restless dead (Buzea, n.d.). Death is a bureaucratic nightmare, and if society doesn't process it correctly, boom! You're a bloodsucker.

But the folklore also provided a hyper-specific cure: the dhampir. Born from the union of a vampire father and a human mother, the dhampir was historically considered the only being capable of seeing and destroying invisible vampires, turning the monster's own cursed bloodline into a community's greatest weapon (McClelland, 2006).

To combat the undead, villagers would hire these dhampir for chaotic, desperate rituals, wrestling unseen forces, exhuming bodies, and burning hearts. There is something tragic about the living making as much noise as possible just to drown out the quiet creeping of death. It’s the original goth impulse: responding to the horror of mortality with dramatic, ritualistic theater, guided by someone who walks between both worlds. Dhampir have made it into popular culture with Blade (Marvel), Alucard (Castlevania), D (Vampire Hunter D), and the Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder roleplaying games. And yes, this body of folklore and pop culture is why Alysia, our favorite fictional UdA assassin, is a dhampir: you need someone born of the dark to effectively fight it.

Strigoi Folklore (Wikipedia)

Moroi - Living Vampires (Wikipedia)

Dhampir (Wikipedia)

Schneider, F. Wesley, Beltrán, Whitney, et al. (2021) Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft.

Johnson, P. (2001). Count Dracula and the Folkloric Vampire.

Buzea, T. (n.d.). How a Book Changed a Nation.

McClelland, B. A. (2006). Slayers and Their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead.

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Best books to take your information from:

1. "Corpus Draculianum" by Adrian Gheorge, Albert Weber and Thomas M Bohn  [RO/GER] 2. "Vlad der Pfähler–Dracula: Tyrann oder Volkstribun?" by Thomas .M Bohn  [GER] 3. "Vlad The Impaler: Dracula" by Stefan Andreescu [RO/ENG-rare to find] ________

Useful links:

https://www.youtube.com/@CorpusDraculianum = Corpus Draculianum YouTube channel, by far the best source of information about Vlad you can find on the internet. Most of The videos are in Romanian with English subtitles. (At the bottom of this post you gonna find a list with Every video from their channel) https://www.youtube.com/@corpusdraculianum.english = Another CD channel with English video made using AI. https://vk.com/voivode_vlad_tepes = Russian VK group where you can find tons of information on Vlad and Wallachia in general. https://www.facebook.com/groups/forum.corpus.draculianum = Corpus Draculianum's oficial group, Here you can talk with the authors and many others experts. 

Also if you can, please support the Corpus Draculianum project on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/Draculianum, In top of supporting the project and their research for Vlad’s documents you will find there many documents and articles in english and romanian.

http://arhivamedievala.ro = Here you can find and look at Vlad’s letters (and others of course) http://siebenbuergenurkundenbuch.uni-trier.de/catalog?commit=sortiere&q=Vlad%20tepes&search_field=all_fields&sort=pub_date_sort%20asc,%20title_sort%20asc&utf8=%E2%9C%93 = German site that contains Vlad’s documents along with many others like Vlad Dracul, Radu The Handsome, Stephen the Great, etc. ________

Other links:

Stefan Andreescu - Vlad Tepes / Romanian. https://pdfcoffee.com/stefanandreescu-vlad-tepes-pdf-free.html _ Vlad Tepes und die Sachsischen Selbstverwaltungsgebiete Siebenburgens By Gustav Gundish in Revue roumaine d'histoire (1969) Available for download in pdf format: http://dspace.bcucluj.ro/handle/123456789/139788 _ Ioan Bogdan: Documente și regeste privitoare la relațiile Țăriĭ Rumînești cu Brașovul și Ungaria în secolul XV și XVI Publication date 1902 Source Biblioteca Digitală a României This work contains important letters and documents by Vlad III Drakulya and his contemporaries in Romanian language. http://www.digibuc.ro/ _ Documenta Romaniae Historica. Series D. Relations between the Romanian Countries. Volume 1: 1222-1456 https://kupdf.net/.../documenta-romaniae-historica-seria... A remarkable collection of letters, official documents etc in Latin and Romanian by Vlad III Drakulya, Janos Hunyadi and many others. 573 pages. Available for download in pdf format. _ Another important collection of documents by Vlad III Drakulya, his father Vlad Dracul, his brother Radu cel Frumos and other historical figures. 687 pages. In Romanian. Available for download in pdf format. Documenta Romaniae Historica. Seria B : Ţara Românească. Volumul 1 : 1247-1500 https://en.calameo.com/books/000827433682e93065018 _ LA VICTOIRE DE VLAD L’EMPALEUR SUR LES TURCS (1462) par NICOLAE STOICESCU, 1976, in Revue roumaine d’histoire http://dspace.bcucluj.ro/handle/123456789/139824 Available for download in pdf format _ LA VICTOIRE DE VLAD L’EMPALEUR SUR LES TURCS (1462) par NICOLAE STOICESCU, 1976, in Revue roumaine d’histoire http://dspace.bcucluj.ro/handle/123456789/139824 Available for download in pdf format _ Critical edition of Laonikos Chalkokondyle’s “Histories” by Egenius Darkó. Laonici Chalcocandylae Historiarum demonstrationes. Ad fidem codicum recensuit, emendavit annotationibusque criticis instruxit Eugenius Darkó by Chalkokondyls, Laonikos, ca. 1430-ca. 1490 Publication date: 1922 Publisher: Budapestini Sumptibus Academiae litterarum hungaricae Languages: Latin, Greek Available for download in pdf format https://archive.org/.../laonicichalcocan00chaluoft/mode/2up “The Histories”, by Laonikos Chalkokondyles describes the fall of the Byzantine empire and the rise of the Ottomans. Written sometime between 1464 and 1468, it centres around the capture of Constantinople in 1453. However, it also covers many events that were happening in Eastern Europe, where the Ottomans, Hungarians and other states were vying with each other. Itgives us an account of Vlad III Drakulya too. _ PÂNDELE OLTEANU LIMBA POVESTIRILOR SLAVE DESPRE VLAD ȚEPEȘ Ed. Acad. R. P. R., Bucarest, 1961, 409 p. (TALES IN SLAVIC LANGUAGE ABOUT VLAD ȚEPEȘ) In Revue roumaine d’histoire, 1965, Bucureşti : Editura Academiei Române. Language: French Pages 140-145 An old but very interesting paper, available for donwload in pdf format. http://dspace.bcucluj.ro/handle/123456789/139764 _ Vlad Ţepeş şi Naraţiunile Germane şi Ruseşti asupra lui : Studiu critic (1896) [Vlad Ţepeş and the German and Russian Narratives about Him: A Critical Study] Author: Bogdan, Ioan (1864-1919). Bucureştĭ : Editura Librăriei Socecǔ & Comp. Language: Romanian Available for download in pdf format https://upload.wikimedia.org/.../Ioan_Bogdan_-_Vlad_%C8... _ The slanderous German incunabula about Vlad III Drakulya. 1) The two incunabula (“Dracole Wayda”, Nuremberg 1488, Augsburg 1494) which are obviously both based on a common original text, depict a misleading and barbaric image of the Wallachian Prince. They are two out of at least eleven further prints of this kind, which appeared on the book markets of rich German merchant towns as of 1488. All pamphlets start with a very brief biography of Vlad III, followed by an unsystematic listing of almost 50 gruesome anecdotes from his reign. The spreading of these historically largely made up stories is doubtlessly connected with the growing reading public’s craving for sensation. Available for download in pdf format. https://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/title/BV023354729 and https://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/title/BV023354738 2) The Saint-Gall manuscript. A composite manuscript consisting mainly of historiographic and hagiographic content. The texts were written between 1450 and 1550, then assembled as a volume in 1573 by St. St. Gall monk Mauritius Enk. This text is only transmitted in three other manuscripts: one at the library of Lambach Abbey in upper Austria, one at the British Library in London, and one at the Municipal Library of Colmar in France. https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/0806/283 See also Matei Cazacu, “ GESCHICHTE DRACOLE WAIDE UN INCUNABLE IMPRIMÉ A VIENNE EN 1463” , available for dowload in pdf format. https://www.persee.fr/.../bec_0373-6237_1981_num_139_2... https://www.academia.edu/.../Croisade_tardive_et_d%C3... _ the chronicle of Antonius Bonfinius, “Historia Pannonica: Sive Hungaricarum Decades ” . Antonio Bonfini (Latin variant: Antonius Bonfinius; 1427‒1502) was an Italian humanist and poet who spent the last years of his career as a court historian in Hungary. He was a secretary to King Matthias Hunyadi Corvinus and was commissioned by him to produce a work chronicling the History of Hungary. Bonfini arrived at Matthias’s court in 1486; the king assigned him this project in 1488. Under Matthias’s successor Vladislaus II, Bonfini could continue his work intermittently until 1497. Bonfini gives in his work a lengthy description of the alleged “crimes” of the Wallachian Prince Vlad III, closely resembling the German stories. Some of the paragraphs coincide with the German pamphlets, while others are different. Bonfini apparently used a printed or manuscript version of the malicious German narratives about Drakulya which were circulating at that time. 1) Original pages of Bonfini “Rerum Hungaricarum Decades”, available at http://epa.oszk.hu/.../MKSZ_EPA00021_1984_100_04_330-373... 2) Critical edition of Bonfini’s work by I. Fogel, B. Ivanyi and L. Juhasz, Lipsiae, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum SAEC. 3) Antonii Bonfini Asculani Rerum Hungaricarum decades libris 45. comprehensae ab origine gentis ad annum 1495. Accessit index rerum locupletissimus recensuit et praefatus est d. Carolus Andreas Bel .. (1771). Available at https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_34sty47HR2EC _ His monetary policy is a scarcely investigated side of the rule of Wallachian Voivode Vlad III Drakulya. The Octavian Iliescu’s paper “Vlad l'Empaleur et le droit monétaire” gives us a very interesting insight into this topic. In “Revue roumained'histoire”, 1979, Bucureşti, Editura Academiei Române. Available for download in pdf format at http://dspace.bcucluj.ro/handle/123456789/139834 See also Matei Cazacu, “L'impact Ottoman sur le Pays Roumains et ses incidences monétaires (1452-1504). In “Revue roumaine d'histoire”, 1973, Bucureşti : Editura Academiei Române. Available for download in pdf format at http://dspace.bcucluj.ro/handle/123456789/139807 _ I would like to draw attention to this interesting book about diplomatic relationships between Transylvania, Hungary, Moldova and Wallachia in the period 1468 to 1540. It’s called “Acta et epistolae relationum Transylvaniae Hungariaeque cum Moldavia et Valachia” Volumen primum, by Veress, Endre (Budapest,1914), Publisher Kolozsvár Fontes rerum transylvanicarum, in Hungarian and Latin. It contains important documents and letters about the last years of life of Vlad III, his death and the political events of the period. Those interested can download it in pdf format at https://archive.org/details/actaetepistolaer01vereuoft _ here are two more sources. 1) Magyar diplomacziai emlékek Mátyás király korából 1458-1490 , by Iván Nagy, Albert Nyáry, Matthias, 1877, Publisher A M. Tud. Akadémia. Avaliable for download at https://archive.org/details/magyardiplomacz00mattgoog 2) Monumenta Hungariae historica: Magyar történelmi emlékek, byTörténelmi Bizottság , Magyar Tudományos Akadémia,1875,Publisher Magyar Tudományos Akadémia. Available for download at https://archive.org/details/monumentahungar27akadgoog _ I want to introduce to you the work of Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672-1750) “Rerum Italicarum scriptores ab anno aerae christianae quingentesimo ad millesimumquingentesimum” (1731), Volume 18, Publisher Mediolani : ex typographia Societatis Palatinae in Regia Curia. Ludovico (also spelled Lodovico) Antonio Muratori was an Italian historian, notable as a leading scholar of his age. Duke Rinaldo I d'Este (1700) appointed him archivist and librarian in Modena’s Ducal library, which position he held until his death in that city. He studied sources for a history of Italy, and as a fruit of his researches there appeared the large work, “Rerum italicarum Scriptores ab anno æræ christianæ 500 ad annum 1500” (Writers on Italy, 500–1500). It was published in twenty-eight folio volumes with the assistance of the Società Palatina of Milan (Milan, 1723–51). In Volume 18 of his massive work (18.2: Matthaei de Griffonibus “Memoriale historicum de rebus Bononiensium”: aa. 4448 a.C.-1472 d.C.), we can find a brief account of the Wallachian victories against the Ottoman forces of Mehemet II in the summer of 1462. The thrilling news of the attack on the Ottoman camp by the troups of Vlad III Drakulya were brought to Bologna by Venetian merchant’s letters. According to these reports, 40000 Turks were slained or take prisoners. Those interested can download Muratori’s work at https://archive.org/details/rerumitalicarums271mura See also the letter of Dominicus Balbi to Signoria di Venetia, 28 July 1462, in Monumenta Hungariae historica: Magyar történelmi emlékek     https://archive.org/details/monumentahungar31akadgoog _ The letter allegedly sent by Vlad III Drakulya Ţepeş, Voivode of Wallachia, to Sultan Mehmet II on 7 November 1462 and his supposed treason against Matthias Hunyadi Corvinus, in “Pii secvndi pontificis max. Commentarii rerum memorabilium, quae temporibus suis contigerunt” by Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464; Gobellinus, Joannes; Ammannati Piccolomini, Jacopo, 1422-1479; Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464. Apologia ad Martinum Mayer. Publication date: 1584 Publisher: Romae, Ex typographia Dominici Basae Language: Latin Available at: https://archive.org/details/piisecvndipontif00pius [Pope Pius II, born Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini (18 October 1405 – 14 August 1464). He was born at Corsignano in the Sienese territory, Tuscany, Italy. His major work is the “Commentaries”.] For an excellent analysis of the complex political background of this entry in Pius II work, I refere those interested to Alexandru Simon’s paper “AHumanist’s Pontifical Playground: Pius II and Transylvania in the Days of John Dragula”, in Transylvanian Review . 2020 Supplement, Vol. 29, p35-70. 36p. Available online at (This link usually dosen't work but it will be the first pop up if you google "A Humanist’s Pontifical Playground Pius II and Transylvania in the Days of John Dragula") https://web.a.ebscohost.com/abstract?direct=true&profile=ehost&scope=site&authtype=crawler&jrnl=12211249&AN=149408111&h=yxGso1dhUtosN0nJiSVsTxjOATB20ADd7awuq45SSQbuV1z7dZTj%2fxaoVXAkNGghLlrC5EYLvekc4%2f4svJpxNQ%3d%3d&crl=f&resultNs=AdminWebAuth&resultLocal=ErrCrlNotAuth&crlhashurl=login.aspx%3fdirect%3dtrue%26profile%3dehost%26scope%3dsite%26authtype%3dcrawler%26jrnl%3d12211249%26AN%3d149408111 ____

List of Corpus Draculianum videos:

Vlad Țepeș is not the founder of Bucharest #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/C-zX6Ck-NnQ Vlad Țepeș and no other contemporary voievode sign with his own hand. #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/KaEmtV2FxQM Are there any documents written by Vlad the Impaler? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/q9yG9XmaBj4 Vlad the Impaler did not build the Poenari Fortress #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/6_evjd56qW0 Vlad Tepes on Netflix - a gross historical forgery? https://youtu.be/i6mtzCJWF5Y Bran Castle has nothing to do with Vlad Țepeș #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/XjmYDu1iOwg Where did Vlad the Impaler live? A real tourist guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnU3YM9ReVw Vlad the Impaler, a murderer as big as Hitler, Stalin and Mao?? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/8i35rqDY5Dk How can we find the descendants of Vlad Țepeș? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/dHhDqlqOLQA The most "truthful" source about Vlad Țepeș #shorts: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VpuacxjtaSw Who lied the most about Vlad Țepeș? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/wsEi510hyLY How many people did Țepes massacre? Who lies more? https://youtu.be/qXUqRuJUL8I Were the Saxons to blame for the arrest of Vlad Țepeș? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/RBcfdrsfXzw Why did Vlad the Impaler make Bucharest the new capital of Wallachia? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/7N5vXqTm7aY Did Vlad the Impaler kill people with his own hands? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/NSc77o7seh0 The last glow of Vlad Tepes. Campaigns in Serbia and Bosnia (winter 1476): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdmFWpC4XQM&t=562s Vlad Țepeș's fiercest domestic adversary: https://youtu.be/5r-OBjMdQNo Vlad Tepes and love. What do historical sources tell us? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lih3Lx4M7s Childhood next to sultans. A decade as a hostage in the Ottoman Empire: https://youtu.be/_UChyRGs0YI When did Vlad the Impaler impaled for the first time? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65rzSVBx71I We explain the nickname "Draculea" in 100 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3zLZKMSisA We explain the nickname "Țepeș" in 100 seconds: https://youtu.be/qgOZ3kELVLQ Unique event: Vlad the Impaler destroys Ottoman transport fleet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQP420LtdYo&feature=youtu.be The famous night attack on the Ottoman camp: attack on the Sultan or tactical slaughter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEfoIT6RZPo&feature=youtu.be

The portraits of Tepes:

Why do "Dracula" portraits maybe not show Vlad Țepeș? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/4Qqt7gFDjyo cryptoportrait: Portrait of Vlad the Impaler hidden in paintings of the time: https://youtu.be/oO2-cKLaz1E

Death and tomb of Țepeș:

Is the tomb of Vlad Tepes in Bucharest? #shorts: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/riQKOWqBeso An unknown document surprises us with the place of the death of Țepeș:

https://youtu.be/FOAFowF9erM A new historical source rewrites the death of Vlad Țepeș: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOAFowF9erM Where is Vlad Tepes' tomb really located? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxwEyYNkPIQ

Stephen the Great:

Was Stephen the Great beheaded after his death? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/H0yGbTHf0HsAn epic victory missed by Stephen the Great and Vlad the Impaler? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4mq9ZR1FXc Vlad Tepes vs Stephen the Great. Relatives, friends or enemies? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm1Njpx8pg0

Radu the Handsome:

Was Radu the handsome converted to Islam? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/us7jIi2HBHAThe first gay voivode in Romanian history? It's not what you think! https://youtu.be/cYhqwvcgVIw

Mircea, brother of Tepes:

Stronger than Vlad the Impaler? The forgotten hero of Varna (1444): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBbJ9cuwLBQ

Theory and sources of history:

Lost history. Why do we know so little about the Romanian Middle Ages? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/m3-ityQuIIM Where did 90% of Romanian medieval history burn? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/IXlOBikoHBoWhy Do the people who lived through an event know better than historians? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/eCfz3J8za2c What is a historical narrative? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/5T0ibyPJiRs Why don't Romanians trust historians? #shorts: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xzb67UgxUrk The limitations of the historian as a scientist. Why science doesn't care about your feelings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cAMyOWSvHc

The Ottoman world and the Romanians:

Conquest or management? The true intentions of the Ottomans towards the Romanian Countries: https://youtu.be/e3s6en3Z1PI How the Ottomans saw and shared the world #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/LfNisI783xc How did Vlad Țepeș evade paying the tax? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/2H1a-JgHGt0 Janissary were very few in the Ottoman armies #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/FQnHEL18tT8 What did the Ottomans want to do with the Romanian Countries in the 19th century? 15TH CENTURY? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/36hI2bLUBFQ The Ottomans didn't have yatagans in the Middle Ages #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/SzcdKXe2KJU Stop confusing the Turks with the Ottomans! #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/hJne4ohZ12k Unpublished Ottoman sources about the multiple night attacks of the Tepes: https://youtu.be/7yKUBUhjrGg Spahiii: the main Ottoman troops. Everything you are not told on the internet: https://youtu.be/kuigDHJiLMg Organization of the Ottoman armies on the time of Vlad Tepes and Stephen the Great: https://youtu.be/I1GPD0CMuEs Romanian children for the Janissary? Myth or truth? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVHkXnKdHFM The true strength of the Ottoman armies during Vlad Țepeș's time: https://youtu.be/5lurUaI1W6w

The Hungarians, Vlad Tepes and the Romanians:

What did the Hungarians order Vlad Țepeș to do in the spring of 1462? #shorts:

https://youtube.com/shorts/wpwUjPqnaUk

Vlad the Impaler did not suffer much as a prisoner in Hungary (1462-1474) #shorts:

 https://youtube.com/shorts/Se7wBs6_mrE Why did Matthias Corvinus arrest Vlad the Impaler? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/pi8AYAEi3YQ Why did Hungary's army fail against the Ottomans? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/3cQ7aI12rRk Why did Matthias Corvinus leave Vlad the Impaler ALONE in front of the Ottomans? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/3C2BC1_WzyA Did the Hungarians make Vlad the Impaler a hero? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/GA7WovNUr-M Descendants of Vlad Tepes. Did any of them make it to the throne of England? https://youtu.be/x-JUPq5NEEo

Vampirology:

What did Bram Stoker know about Vlad the Impaler? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/sAv2qLQIR3s

Vatican, Catholic Church:

Is the Vatican Archive being manipulated? #shorts: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/swNNm_FfF_Q Conspiracy at the Vatican for Vlad Țepeș? An interesting speculation #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/6aP1jIGsdxo How can you get into the Vatican Secret Archives? #shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/hT-GFpT4lr4

General discussion:

When did the Romanians come out of the Middle Ages? https://youtu.be/z7kkZHzRU7g We explain the voivode in 100 seconds: https://youtu.be/3sy7u5LyGME We explain the VALLAH TYRANTS in 100 seconds: https://youtu.be/XiT9qbSwcDMWe We explain the impaling punishment in 100 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfWkl-ArNc0

Videos in English:

How did Vlad the Impaler look like on the Battlefield? https://youtu.be/1HW0SqTTKyo Wallachian Soldier in Vlad the Impaler's Times: https://youtu.be/4GrGPJo41dc| Who invented Dracula? 4 Plausible Scenarios: https://youtu.be/iwYaDE10iIQ Vlad the Impaler's most ferocious domestic enemy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hm7Uzroqeg Vlad the Impaler's love interests. What do historical sources really tell? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnt86L5v9aQ A childhood next to the Sultans. Dracula's decade as hostage in the Ottoman Empire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffT98Axy08M Vlad the Impaler settles all family business with his brother's murderers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsUt9H39yRM

Reading sources:

Reading from the chronicle of Chalkokondyles, the most detailed source about Tpeș: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wBtDqNafLY

Podcasts, interviews:

About imaginary massacres and imagining a medieval hero | INTERVIEW on Radio7: https://youtu.be/gM89e5XBKNI Romanian Academy Awards. Corpus Draculianum awarded for the first 2 volumes printed: https://youtu.be/tthRdC3HxjU Mehterhaneaua - Exclusive music of sultans, pashas and... voivodes: https://youtu.be/F_5cGqoAKs0 Music in the Romanian Lands from Mircea the Elder to Matei Basarab: https://youtu.be/TUVk22udfX4 History workshop with Dr Albert Weber: https://youtu.be/QtXOYNNxYP4 An interview with Dr. Alexandru Anca, editor of the Byzantine texts in the Corpus Draculianum: https://youtu.be/weqcB6Ta1nc Dr. Liviu Cîmpeanu: The Ottomans replaced Vlad Dracul with a ... https://youtu.be/HGBbYjhZyRE Dr. Liviu Cîmpeanu: Vlad Dracul was NOT in the Order of the Dragon, but... https://youtu.be/xabxeDBFnh8 Dr. Liviu Cîmpeanu on Vlad Dracul: https://youtu.be/7PVRxNNpme8

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