Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 07‏/03‏/2017 - 607 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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Europes First Great Queen
1
1 No Man Ever Held Such Power
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2 The Impotent
17
3 The Queens Daughter
26
4 Two Kings Two Brothers
34
5 Bulls
41
6 Choosing Ferdinand
49
7 Marrying Ferdinand
59
27 The Vale of Tears
272
28 The Race to Asia
282
29 Partying Women
298
30 A Hellish Night
307
31 A New World
311
32 Indians Parrots and Hammocks
323
33 Dividing Up the World
335
34 A New Continent
352

8 Rebel Princess
64
9 The Borgias
78
10 Queen
95
11 And King
100
12 Clouds of War
107
13 Under Attack
113
14 Though I Am Just a Woman
128
15 The Turning Point
135
16 Degrading the Grandees
143
17 Rough Justice
155
18 Adiós Beltraneja
165
19 The Inquisition Populism and Purity
177
20 Crusade
196
21 They Smote Us Town by Town
210
22 God Save King Boabdil
218
23 The Tudors
232
24 Granada Falls
240
25 Handover
249
26 Expulsion of the Jews
260
35 Borgia Weddings
365
36 All the Thrones of Europe
371
37 Though We Are Clerics We Are Still Flesh and Blood
378
38 Juanas Fleet
387
39 Twice Married But a Virgin When She Died
394
40 The Third Knife Thrust of Pain
406
41 The Dirty Tiber
411
42 We Germans Call Them Rats
421
43 The End of Islam?
434
44 The Sultan of Egypt
444
45 Like a Wild Lioness
450
46 The Final Judgement
462
A Beam of Glory
476
Monetary Values and Coinage
489
Notes
491
Bibliography
562
Acknowledgements
585
Index
587
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Giles Tremlett is the Madrid correspondent for the Economist. Until 2013, he covered Spain for the Guardian, for which he is now a contributing editor. He has lived in, and written about, Spain for the past twenty years, and is the author of Catherine of Aragon: The Spanish Queen of Henry VIII and Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past. He lives in Madrid with his wife and their two children.

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