Queen Isabella

Author : Alison Weir
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345497062

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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 : Kirstin Downey
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Giles Tremlett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : C. W. Gortner
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Nancy Rubin,Nancy Rubin Stuart
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Queens
ISBN : 9780595320769

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Isabella of Castile by Nancy Rubin,Nancy Rubin Stuart Pdf

Author : Kathryn Warner
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445647418

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Isabella of France by Kathryn Warner Pdf

The fascinating story of the exceptional woman who wrested power from Edward II and changed the course of English history

Author : Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Barbara F. Weissberger
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : William Thomas Walsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Nancy Whitelaw
Publisher : Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Alison Weir
Publisher : Random House
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780099578390

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Isabella by Alison Weir Pdf

Weir revisits the life of Isabella, Edward II's Queen. A pawn in 14th century European politics she was married to Edward at the age of 12 and so began a turbulent and eventful life.

Author : F. D. Blackley,Gustav Hermansen
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0888640013

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The Household Book of Queen Isabella of England, for the Fifth Regnal Year of Edward II, 8th July 1311 to 7th July 1312 by F. D. Blackley,Gustav Hermansen Pdf

Author : Corinn Codye
Publisher : Steck-Vaughn
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Heads of state
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172113554483

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Queen Isabella I by Corinn Codye Pdf

A biography of Queen Isabella I of Spain, who made it possible for Christopher Columbus to sail west, and whose fierce support of Catholicism led to the expulsion from Spain of non-converted Jews and Moslems.

Author : N. Gemini Sasson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Adultery
ISBN : 0982715811

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Isabeau, a Novel of Queen Isabella and Sir Roger Mortimer by N. Gemini Sasson Pdf

The story of Queen Isabella, who sought revenge on her husband Edward II, and her lover Sir Roger Mortimer, who masterminded the invasion that accomplished it. The marriage of Isabella of France and Edward II of England in 1308 is a union meant to secure lasting peace. For years, Isabella is a loyal wife, who repeatedly salvages her husband's kingship, even as she endures his neglect. When she finally speaks out against Edward's favorite, Lord Hugh Despenser, her income, lands and children are taken from her. In an age when women are not supposed to openly defy their husbands, Isabella vows to get her children back and have her revenge on Despenser - no matter what the cost. Imprisoned in the Tower of London for leading a rebellion against King Edward, Mortimer escapes with Isabella's help and finds refuge in the French court. But when Isabella arrives in Paris to negotiate a peace treaty, it is a temptation the ambitious Mortimer cannot resist.

Author : Carolyn Meyer
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,7 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.