Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great QueenBloomsbury Publishing USA, 07/03/2017 - 624 من الصفحات A major biography of the queen who transformed Spain into a principal global power, and sponsored the voyage that would open the New World. In 1474, when Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania (present day Spain and Portugal), a twenty-three-year-old woman named Isabella ascended the throne. At a time when successful queens regnant were few and far between, Isabella faced not only the considerable challenge of being a young, female ruler in an overwhelmingly male-dominated world, but also of reforming a major European kingdom riddled with crime, debt, corruption, and religious factionism. Her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon united two kingdoms, a royal partnership in which Isabella more than held her own. Their pivotal reign was long and transformative, uniting Spain and setting the stage for its golden era of global dominance. 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, truly modern state with a powerful, clear-minded, and ambitious monarch at its center. With authority and insight 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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... conversos, was still being assimilated amid frequent outbursts of violence. The conversos were the children and grandchildren of what had once been the world's largest community of Jews, most of whom appear to have been forcibly ...
... conversos, was still being assimilated amid frequent outbursts of violence. The conversos were the children and grandchildren of what had once been the world's largest community of Jews, most of whom appear to have been forcibly ...
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... conversos whose racial impurity was often the only real basis for suspicion about their beliefs. And it was during her reign that Christian Spaniards with a Jewish bloodline began to find themselves formally categorised as second-rate ...
... conversos whose racial impurity was often the only real basis for suspicion about their beliefs. And it was during her reign that Christian Spaniards with a Jewish bloodline began to find themselves formally categorised as second-rate ...
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... conversos or 'new' Christians, who were mostly descended from Jewish families that had converted sixty years en ... converso circumcision 32ceremonies. 'Friar Fernando told the King that he did not.
... conversos or 'new' Christians, who were mostly descended from Jewish families that had converted sixty years en ... converso circumcision 32ceremonies. 'Friar Fernando told the King that he did not.
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... converso head of the Jeronymite order, Friar Alfonso de Oropesa, was asked to investigate their existence in the archbishopric of Toledo. He concluded that the few cases of so-called 'judaising' (following Jewish rites and beliefs) were ...
... converso head of the Jeronymite order, Friar Alfonso de Oropesa, was asked to investigate their existence in the archbishopric of Toledo. He concluded that the few cases of so-called 'judaising' (following Jewish rites and beliefs) were ...
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... conversos, accusing Enrique of surrounding himself with heretics. They added colour to their gripes by claiming that his Moorish guard was given both to raping women and to indulging in homosexual acts. He raised unwarranted taxes ...
... conversos, accusing Enrique of surrounding himself with heretics. They added colour to their gripes by claiming that his Moorish guard was given both to raping women and to indulging in homosexual acts. He raised unwarranted taxes ...
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Expulsion of the Jews | |
The Vale of Tears | |
The Race to Asia | |
Partying Women | |
A Hellish Night | |
A New World | |
Indians Parrots and Hammocks | |
Dividing Up the World | |
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 | |
Crusade | |
They Smote Us Town by Town | |
God Save King Boabdil | |
The Tudors | |
Granada Falls | |
Handover | |
A New Continent | |
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 | |
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 | |
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Alfonso Álvaro Anghiera Aragon Aragonese archbishop Arévalo Barcelona Beltraneja Bernáldez Biblioteca de Autores Boabdil Borgia Carriazo Castile Castile’s Castilian Catherine Chapter Christian chronicler city’s claimed Colección diplomática Columbus Columbus’s conversos Córdova Corte court Crónica de Enrique daughter death Década Documentos doña Enrique IV Enrique’s España Estudio Europe expulsion Felipe Fernández-Armesto Fernández-Armesto Fernando Fernando II Friar gold Granada Grandees Guerra Historia husband Ibid Inquisition Isabel la Católica Isabella and Ferdinand islands Jewish Jews Juan Juana king king’s kingdom kingdom of Granada lands León Libro López los Reyes Católicos Luis Suárez Luis Suárez Fernández Madrid Málaga María marriage Medieval Medina monarchs Moors mudéjares Muslims nobles Pacheco palace Palencia Pérez pope Portugal Portuguese prince princess Pulgar queen Real Academia reinado Reyes Católicos Reyes de Castilla royal Segovia Seville Spain Spanish Taíno Talavera Tarsicio de Azcona Toledo Torres town Valladolid Varela Vicens Vives vida women wrote Zurita