Isabel La Católica Queen Of Castile

Author : David A. Boruchoff
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312293070

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Isabel La Católica, Queen of Castile by David A. Boruchoff Pdf

Few historical figures have continued to captivate attention for centuries after their death as has Queen Isabel I of Castile. Yet the realities of Isabel’s life and works are obscured by the legacy of a persona carefully crafted by Isabel and a cadre of historians in her employ or that of her successors, who recognized the benefits of an image of benevolence and piety. This volume includes original essays that examine the world into which Isabel was born; the public and private facets of her marriage and reign; her intervention in the areas of religion, medicine, the arts, and the reform of political, social and economic institutions; and the construction of her image in literary and historical works from the fifteenth century onward.

Author : Barbara F. Weissberger
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1855661594

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Queen Isabel I of Castile by Barbara F. Weissberger Pdf

The Queen who shaped the music, literature, architecture, and painting of late medieval Spain. This multidisciplinary volume was inspired by the quincentenary of the death of Queen Isabel I of Castile, early modern Europe's first powerful queen regnant. Comprising work by distinguished art historians, musicologists, historians, and literary scholars from England, Spain, and the United States, it begins with a theoretical examination of medieval queenship itself that argues - against the grain of the volume - for its inseparability from kingship. Several essays examine the complex ways in which the Queen and her advisers shaped the music, literature, architecture, and painting of fifteenth-century Spain and how these in turn shaped the sovereign's power and persona. Others analyze influences on Isabel's reign from Aragón, Portugal, and northern Europe. A third group deals with issues of periodization, arguing from a variety of perspectives for the modernity of Isabelline culture. The evolving construction of Isabel's image from the mid-fifteenth to the late-twentieth century is also studied. BARBARA WEISSBERGER is Associate Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota. OTHER CONTRIBUTORS: Rafael Domínguez Casas, Theresa Earenfight, Michael Gerli, Chiyo Ishikawa, Tess Knighton, Kenneth Kreitner, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, Nancy F. Marino, William D. Phillips, Jr., Emilio Ros-Fábregas, Ronald E. Surtz

Author : Nancy Rubin,Nancy Rubin Stuart
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Queens
ISBN : 9780595320769

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Isabella of Castile by Nancy Rubin,Nancy Rubin Stuart Pdf

Author : Giles Tremlett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781632865229

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Isabella of Castile by Giles Tremlett Pdf

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.

Author : Nancy Rubin,Nancy Rubin Stuart
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1475923740

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Isabella of Castile by Nancy Rubin,Nancy Rubin Stuart Pdf

Isabella (1441-1504) was a master strategist, seizing the crown of Castile and, with husband Ferdinand of Aragon, ruling both her kingdom and his and winning a virtually nonstop succession of wars to preserve their strongholds. Freelance journalist Rubin presents the queen also as loving wife and mother, promoter of the arts and sponsor of Columbus, views emphasized to soften the dominant persona: Isabella la Catolica. Her goal to make Spain exclusively and permanently Catholic drove the queen to supporting the tortures of the Inquisition, burning dissenters at the stake and evicting Jews from the country. Packed with information, the book holds the reader's interest, despite pedestrian prose and a clear bias in Isabella's favor. Illustrations not seen by PW. (Oct.).

Author : Kirstin Downey
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307742162

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Isabella by Kirstin Downey Pdf

An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in history. In 1474, when most women were almost powerless, twenty-three-year-old Isabella defied a hostile brother and a mercurial husband to seize control of Castile and León. Her subsequent feats were legendary. She ended a twenty-four-generation struggle between Muslims and Christians, forcing North African invaders back over the Mediterranean Sea. She laid the foundation for a unified Spain. She sponsored Columbus’s trip to the Indies and negotiated Spanish control over much of the New World. She also annihilated all who stood against her by establishing a bloody religious Inquisition that would darken Spain’s reputation for centuries. Whether saintly or satanic, no female leader has done more to shape our modern world. Yet history has all but forgotten Isabella’s influence. Using new scholarship, Downey’s luminous biography tells the story of this brilliant, fervent, forgotten woman, the faith that propelled her through life, and the land of ancient conflicts and intrigue she brought under her command.

Author : Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611480184

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Legitimizing the Queen by Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths Pdf

Legitimizing the Queen deals with a genre particular to the Middle Ages: the specula principum (mirror of prince). Its importance as an object of study may be understood in light of the political instability that wracked the Castilian fifteenth century. The many works written for and dedicated to Isabel I of Castile depict her kingdom as a shipwrecked boat, a wayward realm, and a land of bankrupt people. These works suggest the kingdom's need for redemption through the strong leadership of theCatholic monarchs. These largely propagandistic works were designed to garner power, and once maintained, further Isabel's agenda. This book frames the concept of sovereignty from the theoretical perspective of the speculum principum dedicated to her. It offers a Bourdieuian approach to the more literary specula texts used to legitimize and uphold Isabel's power. This book reveals propagandistic qualities promoting the ideology necessary to legitimize and support Isabel's claims to the throne. Written primarily between 1468 and 1493, these works are literary artifacts that mark the rise to power of a female sovereign. The study discusses the various strategies of legitimation employed by these propagandists whose works circulated within noble androyal courts, and presumably extended into Castile as justification for her sovereign claim to the throne. By analyzing fifteenth century texts from within a modern critical framework, this book reexamines Isabel's position as queen and contributes to the understanding of her shared sovereignty in a period political and social evolution.

Author : Jean Baptiste Rosario Gonzalve de baron Nervo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Spain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048833136

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Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain by Jean Baptiste Rosario Gonzalve de baron Nervo Pdf

Author : Peggy K. Liss
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812293203

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Isabel the Queen by Peggy K. Liss Pdf

Queen Isabel of Castile is perhaps best known for her patronage of Christopher Columbus and for the religious zeal that led to the Spanish Inquisition, the waging of holy war, and the expulsion of Jews and Muslims across the Iberian peninsula. In this sweeping biography, newly revised and annotated to coincide with the five-hundredth anniversary of Isabel's death, Peggy K. Liss draws upon a rich array of sources to untangle the facts, legends, and fiercely held opinions about this influential queen and her decisive role in the tumultuous politics of early modern Spain. Isabel the Queen reveals a monarch who was a woman of ruthless determination and strong religious beliefs, a devoted wife and mother, and a formidable leader. As Liss shows, Isabel's piety and political ambition motivated her throughout her life, from her earliest struggles to claim her crown to her secret marriage to King Fernando of Aragón, a union that brought success in civil war, consolidated Christian hegemony over the Iberian peninsula, and set the stage for Spain to become a world empire.

Author : Govert Westerveld
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781326403645

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The Training of Isabella I of Castile as the Virgin Mary by Churchman Martin de Cordoba in 1468 by Govert Westerveld Pdf

Today most chess historians agree that the weak chess queen, named "dame" in France as from the XIV century, changed to a powerful chess queen in Spain in 1475. Around this year we also see a change of the weak bishop to a strong bishop, according to the chess poem Scachs d'amor. In order to strengthen our hypothesis of Isabella I of Castile (Isabel la Católica) we have written a book about the new bishop and a book about Scachs d'amor in English. Concentrating now on Virgin Mary in relationship with Isabella I of Castile we observe that the Augustinian monastic Martin de Córdoba wrote in 1468 the work El Jardin de las donzellas. It was directed to Princess Isabel I of Castile with the intention to contribute to her education as future Queen. Cordoba was the first writer who draws equivalencies between Isabella I of Castile and Virgin Mary, which became one of her standard portrayals. Shorty thereafter we see the appearance of a new powerful chess queen.

Author : Hilaire Kallendorf
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004521520

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A Companion to the Queenship of Isabel la Católica by Hilaire Kallendorf Pdf

The queenship of the first European Renaissance queen regnant never ceases to fascinate. As fascists to feminists fight over Isabel’s legacy, we ask which recyclings of her image are legitimate or appropriate. Or has this figure taken on a life of her own?

Author : C. W. Gortner
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345523969

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The Queen's Vow by C. W. Gortner Pdf

This is an evocative, vividly imagined novel about one of history's most famous and controversial queens--the warrior who united a fractured country, the champion of the faith whose reign gave rise to the Inquisition, and the visionary who sent Columbus to discover a New World.

Author : Giles Tremlett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408853962

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Isabella of Castile by Giles Tremlett Pdf

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.

Author : Jean Plaidy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:60050371

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Castile for Isabella by Jean Plaidy Pdf

Author : John Edwards
Publisher : Tempus Pub Limited
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0752433318

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Isabella of Castile by John Edwards Pdf

Isabella was Queen of Spain for over 30 years, an absolute monarch who reigned with absolute power and ruthlessness. Feared by her subjects, admired by her successors, and courted by monarchs from all over Europe, Isabella was Spain’s answer to Elizabeth I. This remarkable history shows how Spain’s "iron lady" turned the isolated kingdom of Castile into the world’s first super-power, and laid the foundations for a Spanish empire that was to stretch from Mexico through Africa and Europe to the Philippines. The tale of a ruthless ruler with an unexpected leaning towards compassion, Isabella of Castile is the story of a queen who dared to be different—the woman who made an empire.