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By Amory Stern
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Michael the Brave, the
Ottoman Wars, and Count
Dracula
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Michael the Brave
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Carl Schmitt, translated by George Schwab, The Concept of the
Political, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007), p. 31
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Michael the Brave
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Anders Ingram, Writing the Ottomans: Turkish History in Early
Modern England, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), p. 37
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Ibid, p. 37 [Note: The discrepancy in the spelling of “Habsburgs”
is in Ingram’s original.]
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Michael the Brave
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E. Schwarzfeld, “THE JEWS OF ROUMANIA FROM THE
EARILIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY”, The American
Jewish Year Book, Vol. 3, pp. 25-62, Published by the American
Jewish Committee
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Ibid
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Nicolae Iorga, tr. Laura Treptow, Byzantium After Byzantium,
(Portland, OR: The Center for Romanian Studies in cooperation
with the Romanian Institute of International Studies, 2000), p.149
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Bram Stoker, Dracula, Ch. 18. Note that Stoker’s villain, before
he became a vampire, is portrayed as more of a Napoleonic
adventurer than a cruel tyrant. Stoker, again, was more familiar
with Michael the Brave’s life and reputation than with those of
Vlad Țepeș. Elizabeth Miller, who has studied Bram Stoker’s notes
for Dracula – and edited them for recent publication, along with
Robert Eighteen-Bisang – has questioned whether Stoker knew
anything about Țepeș’ controversial reputation at all. This
skepticism is more convincing than the unsubstantiated and
discredited claim of McNally and Florescu that Stoker was inspired
by accusations of bloodthirstiness leveled at Vlad Țepeș. The
nickname “The Impaler” does not appear either in Stoker’s notes or
in Wilkinson’s account of Romanian history, nor do any of the
disputed stories about Țepeș’ atrocities. On the other hand,
Wilkinson demonstrates a knowledge of, and interest in, Michael
the Brave’s military career.
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Michael the Brave
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Andrei Oisteanu, Inventing the Jew: Antisemitic Stereotypes in
Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures (University
of Nebraska Press, 2009), p. 430
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Michael the Brave
A.C. Cuza
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