• The origin and the family of Dracula
• Royal and princely European families related to the family of Dracula
• Vlad Dracula’s descendants: false and right claims worldwide
• European contemporaries of Vlad: relationships
• Where and when was Vlad the Impaler born?
• New avenues of research: Vlad’s possible resting place
• The Order of the Dragon with Vlad’s descendants
• Vlad’s Valahia: administrative and social structures; domestic and foreign policy; the army
• Civil punishments in mediaeval Valahia; comparative means of punishments in Europe (15 century)
• The origin of impalement. Vlad’s punishments
• War tactics with Vlad the Impaler; the psychological warfare; night attacks
• The sources of the negative fame of Vlad (the Christian adversaries)
• The sources of the positive fame (resistance to Ottoman expansion)
• Vlad Dracula and the Pope
• Portraits of Vlad (description and graphic)
• The Saxon, Turkish and Slavic pamphlets, chronicles, documents: critical appraisals
• Vlad in the folk stories of the Romanians
• Mysteries in the life of Vlad Dracula: his wives; his whereabouts between 1462-1474; the manner of his death
• How much about Vlad did Bram Stoker know?
• The gradual vampirisation of Vlad in the Western literature, film, media, studies; in Romania
• Surprising new trends in the perception of Vlad Tepes: model for teenagers, and not only

Company of Mysterious Journeys — Romania