Dracula's Bloodline

Radu R. Florescu was born in Bucharest, Romania and is an indirect descendant of Prince Dracula. He received both BA and MA degrees from Christ Church, Oxford University and a PhD from Indiana University. He is professor emeritus of history at Boston College and is author of The Struggle Against Russia in the Romanian Principalities and co-author of a half dozen books on the story of Vlad Tepes, the historical Dracula. With almost a dozen books to his name, his academic work has been the subject of documentaries by The History Channel, Discovery, Canadian Broadcasting, and other international networks.Matei Cazacu received his BA and MA from the University of Bucharest and his PhD from the Sorbonne in Paris. He served as a senior researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. Professor Cazacu is the author of a few dozen books including Dracula (Tallandier, Paris, 2004), Gilles de Rais, or Blue Beard, (Tallandier, Paris, 2005), and Frankenstein (with Professor Florescu, Tallandier, 2011). A medievalist, Professor Cazacu lectures throughout Europe and has appeared in documentaries on The History Channel and Romanian television.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionRomanian Court Dignitaries and Terms in EnglishChapter 1 My Name is FloreaChapter 2 The Wolfman Serves Vlad DraculChapter 3 A Florescu-Dracula MarriageChapter 4 Maria the Old Saves the Florescu NameChapter 5 The Tragic Death of Two Half-Brothers: Michael the Brave and Radu FlorescuChapter 6 The Florescus During the Seventeenth Century: Manners Maketh ManChapter 7 Florescu Survival Under Greek RuleChapter 8 The Revolutionary Household in Bucharest — 1848Chapter 9 A Conservative General and a Liberal Musician ReuniteChapter 10 A Patriot of Greater RomaniaChapter 11 Radu Florescu: An Undiplomatic DiplomatChapter 12 Radu Florescu: The Absent-Minded ProfessorChapter 13 The Search for DraculaChapter 14 Uncle George and Aunt Elza Florescu Milescu Survive Fascism and Battle CommunismEpilogue The Post-Communist Generation: Quest for New Frontiers and Reclaiming the Values of OldGenealogyFlorescu Land and Property Holdings (Fourteenth-Nineteenth

[T]he book is lively and engaging. The Dracula Professor has had a full and interesting life, bracketed by his colorful Romanian ancestors and by his successful children, some of whom returned to post-Communist Romania as entrepreneurs. Dracula’s Bloodline is a good read.