Anti-Ottoman Cruelty and Christian Rite: The Deeds of the “Repenting” Vlad III of Wallachia
Journal: Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis
Year: 2024

Abstract When Byzantium fell, Western attitude towards Greek rite Christians began to change, whether they were ‘schismatics’ or in union with Rome, following the troublesome enactment of the Council of Florence (1439). The modification, noted for Balkan Christians, crossed the Lower Danube. There laid the mostly Greek rite zones that stayed outside of Ottoman direct authority, even after Mehmed II’s victories in Serbia (1459), in Bosnia (1463) or in the Crimea (1475). These zones formed two (di