Isabella Of Spain

Author : Giles Tremlett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : William Thomas Walsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Spain
ISBN : UOM:39015021950137

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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 : Kirstin Downey
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Nancy Rubin,Nancy Rubin Stuart
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Queens
ISBN : 9780595320769

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Isabella of Castile by Nancy Rubin,Nancy Rubin Stuart Pdf

Author : Jean Baptiste Rosario Gonzalve de baron Nervo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Jean Plaidy
Publisher : Random House
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Lust
ISBN : 9780099510321

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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 : Carolyn Meyer
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0439078059

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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 : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786259929

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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 : William Hickling Prescott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Spain
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2W8S

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History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic by William Hickling Prescott Pdf

Author : C. W. Gortner
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Barbara F. Weissberger
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Valerie Wilding
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780802796752

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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 : Melveena McKendrick
Publisher : New Word City
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612309170

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Ferdinand and Isabella by Melveena McKendrick Pdf

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain are most often remembered for the epochal voyage of Christopher Columbus. But the historic landfall of October 1492 was only a secondary event of the year. The preceding January, they had accepted the surrender of Muslim Granada, ending centuries of Islamic rule in their peninsula. And later that year, they had ordered the expulsion or forced baptism of Spain's Jewish minority, a cruel crusade undertaken in an excess of zeal for their Catholic faith. Europe, in the century of Ferdinand and Isabella, was also awakening to the glories of a new age, the Renaissance, and the Spain of the "Catholic Kings" - as Ferdinand and Isabella came to be known - was not untouched by this brilliant revival of learning. Here, from the noted historian Melveena McKendrick, is their remarkable story.

Author : Nancy Whitelaw
Publisher : Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Queens
ISBN : 1931798257

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Queen Isabella and the Unification of Spain by Nancy Whitelaw Pdf

Although Queen Isabella is most famous for funding the voyages of Christopher Columbus, which opened up the Western Hemisphere for European settlement, she and her husband Ferdinand of Aragon focused most of their reign on the daunting task of uniting Spain under one government. Born into the ruling family of Castile, Isabella lost her parents at a young age and was raised by her unstable and unpopular half-brother, King Enrique IV. When Enrique, on his deathbed, refused to name an heir, twenty-three-year old Isabella seized the throne. It took Isabella and Ferdinand five years of war to consolidate control in Castile. Next, they turned to the long and bloody process of driving the last of the Moors from Spain and unifying most of the Iberian Peninsula. Their commitment to their faith, and to removing all non-Christians from their kingdom, earned the Catholic Monarchs, as they were called, the support of the Catholic Church, but also led to the infamous Spanish Inquisition and to the violent expulsion of all Muslims and Jews from the kingdom. Queen Isabella and the Unification of Spain introduces readers to this intriguing and controversial ruler, and to this fascinating period in European history. Book jacket.

Author : William Thomas Walsh
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258217309

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Isabella of Spain by William Thomas Walsh Pdf