MEDIEVAL WARFARE XI-4 - VLAD THE IMPALER

Vlad III Tepes, better known as Dracula, used savage tactics to repel an invasion of Ottoman forces under Mehmed the Conqueror.

Theme: Vlad the Impaler at war

• Andrei Pogacias, 'Ruling Wallachia during a turbulent era - The reign of Vlad II Dracul'.
• Peter Konieczny, 'The life and times of Vlad III (1429-176) - A timeline of the Impaler'.
• Adrian Gheorghe, 'The night attacks that made Vlad famous - Dracula against Mehmed the Conqueror'.
• Albert Weber, 'The 1476 campaign in Serbia and Bosnia - Vlad's sequel'.
• Alice Isabella Sullivan, 'From literature to film - The postmedieval Dracula'.

Features:

• Stephen Donnachie, 'Venice, Genoa, and Pisa in the Levant - The War of St Sabas, 1256-1258'.
• Sidney E. Dean, 'English resistance after the Norman Conquest - Hereward and the Siege of Ely'.
• Randall Moffett, 'The English militiaman in the fourteenth century, part II - From hobelars to archers'.
• Kay Smith and Ruth R. Brown, 'Fifteenth-century wrought-iron cannons - Mons Meg and her sisters'.
• Chris Hanson, 'Mock battles and skilled manoeuvres - Equestrian games'.
• John France, 'Whe constitutionalism was in vogue, but not war - The rise of the modern historical profession'.
• Kyle C. Lincoln, 'Archiepiscopal warfighting in thirteenth-century Iberia - Rodrigo Ximénez de Rada'.
• Vick McAlister, 'Part psychology, part appearance - Castles and defence'.