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Isabella Of Castile

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Author : Nancy Rubin
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 1991

Isabella Of Castile written by Nancy Rubin and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Queens categories.

Isabella Of Castile

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Author : Giles Tremlett
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-02-09

Isabella Of Castile written by Giles Tremlett and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-09 with History categories.

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.

Isabella Of Castile 1492 1892

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Author : Eliza Allen Starr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889

Isabella Of Castile 1492 1892 written by Eliza Allen Starr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with categories.

Isabella Of Castile

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Author : Nancy Rubin
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2004

Isabella Of Castile written by Nancy Rubin and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.

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.).

Isabella The Catholic Queen Of Spain

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Author : Jean Baptiste Rosario Gonzalve de baron Nervo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897

Isabella The Catholic Queen Of Spain written by Jean Baptiste Rosario Gonzalve de baron Nervo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Spain categories.

Isabella Of Castile

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Author : Shirin Yim Bridges
language : en
Publisher: Goosebottom Books
Release Date : 2012-06-30

Isabella Of Castile written by Shirin Yim Bridges and has been published by Goosebottom Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-30 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

Isabella

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Author : Kirstin Downey
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2014-10-28

Isabella written by Kirstin Downey and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

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 Born at a time when Christianity was dying out and the Ottoman Empire was aggressively expanding, Isabella was inspired in her youth by tales of Joan of Arc, a devout young woman who unified her people and led them to victory against foreign invaders. 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 with the help of Rodrigo Borgia, the infamous Pope Alexander VI. 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, in which millions of people in two hemispheres speak Spanish and practice Catholicism. Yet history has all but forgotten Isabella's influence, due to hundreds of years of misreporting that often attributed her accomplishments to Ferdinand, the bold and philandering husband she adored. 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.