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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... No woman in history has exceeded her achievement.' Hugh Thomas, Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire 'Probably the most important person in our history.' Manuel Fernández Álvarez, Isabella Católica To T I L I of of . , H.
... No woman in history has exceeded her achievement.' Hugh Thomas, Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire 'Probably the most important person in our history.' Manuel Fernández Álvarez, Isabella Católica To T I L I of of . , H.
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... gold. This also wrought a fourfold increase in the geographical size of what would eventually be termed 'Western civilisation' and helped provoke a tectonic shift in global power. It was, in many ways, the miracle for which embattled ...
... gold. This also wrought a fourfold increase in the geographical size of what would eventually be termed 'Western civilisation' and helped provoke a tectonic shift in global power. It was, in many ways, the miracle for which embattled ...
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... gold tube with which to introduce the semen that her husband had produced into her vagina. 'It was to see if [via the tube] she could receive the semen, but she could not,' a German doctor who travelled to Castile's court, Hieronymus ...
... gold tube with which to introduce the semen that her husband had produced into her vagina. 'It was to see if [via the tube] she could receive the semen, but she could not,' a German doctor who travelled to Castile's court, Hieronymus ...
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... gold coins were called), and promising that he and his brother would switch their allegiance and 'bring the prince, his brother, and place him [back] in his power'. Enrique agreed, urging Girón to 'come as fast as possible'. The move ...
... gold coins were called), and promising that he and his brother would switch their allegiance and 'bring the prince, his brother, and place him [back] in his power'. Enrique agreed, urging Girón to 'come as fast as possible'. The move ...
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... gold to Isabella's While secret negotiations were carried out at night-time meetings with the Aragonese envoys in Isabella's rooms, the Portuguese king sent the archbishop of Lisbon to finalise a wedding treaty that he had been led to ...
... gold to Isabella's While secret negotiations were carried out at night-time meetings with the Aragonese envoys in Isabella's rooms, the Portuguese king sent the archbishop of Lisbon to finalise a wedding treaty that he had been led to ...
المحتوى
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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