Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great QueenBloomsbury Publishing, 09/02/2017 - 624 من الصفحات In 1474, a twenty-three year old woman ascended the throne of Castile, the largest and strongest kingdom in Spain. Ahead of her lay the considerable challenge not only of being a young, female ruler in an overwhelmingly male-dominated world, but also of reforming a major European kingdom that was riddled with crime, corruption, and violent political factionism. Her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon was crucial to her success, bringing together as it did two kingdoms, but it was a royal partnership in which Isabella more than held her own. Her pivotal reign was long and transformative, uniting Spain and setting the stage for its golden era of global dominance. For by the time of her death in 1504, Isabella had laid the foundations not just of modern Spain, but of one of the world's greatest empires. Acclaimed historian Giles Tremlett chronicles the life of Isabella of Castile as she led her country out of the murky middle ages and harnessed the newest ideas and tools of the early Renaissance to turn her ill-disciplined, quarrelsome nation into a sharper, modern state with a powerful, clear-minded, and ambitious monarch at its centre. With authority, insight and flair he relates the story of this legendary, if controversial, first initiate in a small club of great European queens that includes Elizabeth I of England, Russia's Catherine the Great, and Britain's Queen Victoria. |
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Europes First Great Queen | |
No Man Ever Held Such Power | |
The Impotent | |
The Queens Daughter | |
Two Kings Two Brothers | |
Bulls | |
Choosing Ferdinand | |
Marrying Ferdinand | |
The Vale of Tears | |
The Race to Asia | |
Partying Women | |
A Hellish Night | |
A New World | |
Indians Parrots and Hammocks | |
Dividing Up the World | |
A New Continent | |
Rebel Princess | |
The Borgias | |
Queen | |
And King | |
Clouds of | |
Under Attack | |
Though I Am Just a Woman | |
The Turning Point | |
Degrading the Grandees | |
Rough Justice | |
Adiós Beltraneja | |
The Inquisition Populism and Purity 20 Crusade | |
They Smote Us Town by Town | |
God Save King Boabdil | |
The Tudors | |
Granada Falls | |
Handover | |
Expulsion of the Jews | |
Borgia Weddings | |
All the Thrones of Europe | |
Though We Are Clerics We Are Still Flesh and Blood 38 Juanas Fleet | |
Twice Married But a Virgin When She Died 40 The Third KnifeThrust of Pain | |
The Dirty Tiber | |
We Germans Call Them Rats | |
The End of Islam? | |
The Sultan of Egypt | |
Like a Wild Lioness | |
The Final Judgement | |
A Beam of Glory | |
Monetary Values and Coinage | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Acknowledgements | |
Plate Section | |
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