Hungary in 1604 must have been amazing

I hope I'm not violating too many copyright regulations by reproducing these three pages. I'll be reviewing The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster by Shelley Puhak (Bloomsbury, 2026) this coming week. My personal school-based education in history through high school and college was so focused on the United States and western Europe that information like this is…