Countess Dracula (44 page)

The execution of traitors: a depiction from the early 17th century

Medical instruments from the early modern era

A 16th-century witch is ceremonially burned

Cardinal Andrew Báthory (d.1599)

The seal of the Báthory family

Matthias II, King of Hungary and Holy Roman Emperor (1557-1619)

The Old Town Hall in Bratislava, seat of the Hungarian Diet in the early 17th century

The English cartographer John Speed's map of Hungary in the 17th century

The castle at Beckov in the 19th century

Elisabeth Báthory's castle of Németkeresztúr

Paul Nádasdy's letter pleading for the life of his mother, addressed to the Palatine Thurzó on 23 February 1611

The Esterházy castle of Forchtenstein where Elisabeth was reputed to have tortured her victims