Isabella of Castile : Europe's first great queen /
One of Europe's great queens, Isabella of Castile is also one of the least well known, but undeservedly so. For no other European queen in history can fully rival her power or achievements as a female ruler who overcame huge obstacles. Formidable, tenacious and ambitious, as a teenager she saw...
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London :
Bloomsbury,
2017
London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017 |
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Table of Contents:
- Europe's first great queen
- No man ever held such power
- The impotent
- The Queen's daughter
- Two kings, two brothers
- Bulls
- Choosing Ferdinand
- Marrying Ferdinand
- Rebel princess
- The Borgias
- Queen
- and King!
- Clouds of war
- Under attack
- Though I am just a woman
- The turning point
- Degrading the Grandees
- Rough justice
- Adiós Beltraneja
- The Inquisition : populism and purity
- Crusade
- They smote us town by town
- God save King Boabdil!
- The Tudors
- Granada falls
- Handover
- Expulsion of the Jews
- The vale of tears
- The race to Asia
- Partying women
- A hellish night
- new world
- Indians, parrots, and hammocks
- Dividing up the world
- A new continent
- Borgia weddings
- All the thrones of Europe
- Though we are clerics ... we are still flesh and blood
- Juana's fleet
- Twice married, but a virgin when she died
- The third knife-thrust of pain
- The dirty Tiber
- We Germans call them rats
- The end of Islam?
- The Sultan of Egypt
- Like a wild lioness
- The final judgement
- A beam of glory
- Appendix. Monetary values and coinage