Queen Isabella And The Unification Of Spain

Author : Nancy Whitelaw
Publisher : Morgan Reynolds Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781931798259
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen Isabella and the Unification of Spain written by Nancy Whitelaw and published by Morgan Reynolds Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Hickling Prescott
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Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, of Spain written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Giles Tremlett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 163286522X
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isabella of Castile written by Giles Tremlett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Hickling Prescott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara F. Weissberger
Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 : 9781855661592
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen Isabel I of Castile written by Barbara F. Weissberger and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Christopher Hare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Queen of Queens & the Making of Spain written by Christopher Hare and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kirstin Downey
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307742164
Total Pages : 562 pages
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Download or read book Isabella written by Kirstin Downey and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William Hickling Prescott
Publisher : E-Artnow
ISBN 13 : 9788027343744
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic (Vol. 1-3): Complete Edition written by William Hickling Prescott and published by E-Artnow. This book was released on 2022-07-03 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nancy Rubin
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595320767
Total Pages : 502 pages
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Download or read book Isabella of Castile written by Nancy Rubin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1991 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean Baptiste Rosario Gonzalve de baron Nervo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain written by Jean Baptiste Rosario Gonzalve de baron Nervo and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: