Isabella Of Castile

Author : Giles Tremlett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781632865229

Get Book

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 : 502 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Queens
ISBN : 9780595320769

Get Book

Isabella of Castile by Nancy Rubin,Nancy Rubin Stuart Pdf

Author : Kirstin Downey
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307742162

Get Book

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 : Jean Plaidy
Publisher : Random House
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Lust
ISBN : 9780099510321

Get Book

Castile for Isabella by Jean Plaidy Pdf

Isabella became the pawn of her ambitious, half-crazed mother and a virtual prisoner at the licentious court of her half-brother, Henry IV. Was she, at sixteen, fated to be the victim of the Queen's revenge, the Archbishop's ambition and the lust of Don Pedro Giron, one of the most notorious lechers in Castile?

Author : C. W. Gortner
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345523969

Get Book

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 : Barbara F. Weissberger
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1855661594

Get Book

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 : Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611480184

Get Book

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 : Carolyn Meyer
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0439078059

Get Book

Isabel by Carolyn Meyer Pdf

While waiting anxiously for others to choose a husband for her, Isabella, the future Queen of Spain, keeps a diary account of her life as a member of the royal family.

Author : William Thomas Walsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Spain
ISBN : UOM:39015021950137

Get Book

Isabella of Spain by William Thomas Walsh Pdf

Called by her people Isabella la Catolica, she was by any standard one of the greatest women of all history. A saint in her own right, she married Ferdinand of Aragon, and they forged modern Spain, cast out the Moslems, discovered the New World by backing Columbus, and established a powerful central government in Spain. This story is so thrilling it reads like a novel. Makes history really come alive. Highly readable and truly great in every respect!

Author : Valerie Wilding
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780802796752

Get Book

Real Princesses by Valerie Wilding Pdf

"Get the facts about princesses past and present--their clothes, their homes, their families, and their fates!"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : William Thomas Walsh
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786259929

Get Book

Isabella of Spain: The Last Crusader by William Thomas Walsh Pdf

Called by her people Isabella la Catolica, she was by any standard one of the greatest women of all history. A saint in her own right, she married Ferdinand of Aragon, and they forged modern Spain, cast out the Moslems, discovered the New World by backing Columbus, and established a powerful central government in Spain. This story is so thrilling it reads like a novel. Makes history really come alive. Highly readable and truly great in every respect!

Author : Alison Weir
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345497062

Get Book

Queen Isabella by Alison Weir Pdf

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Alison Weir's Mary Boleyn. In this vibrant biography, acclaimed author Alison Weir reexamines the life of Isabella of England, one of history’s most notorious and charismatic queens. Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the spirited twelve-year-old daughter of King Philip IV of France. Her marriage to the heir to England’s throne was designed to heal old political wounds between the two countries, and in the years that followed she became an important figure, a determined and clever woman whose influence would come to last centuries. Many myths and legends have been woven around Isabella’s story, but in this first full biography in more than 150 years, Alison Weir gives a groundbreaking new perspective.

Author : Peggy K. Liss
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812293203

Get Book

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 : David A. Boruchoff
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312293070

Get Book

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 : Eliza Allen Starr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081579157

Get Book

Isabella of Castile, 1492-1892 by Eliza Allen Starr Pdf