Castile for Isabella
Title | Castile for Isabella PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Plaidy |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Lust |
ISBN | 0099510324 |
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?
Isabella
Title | Isabella PDF eBook |
Author | Kirstin Downey |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 562 |
Release | 2015-11-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307742164 |
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.
Isabella of Castile
Title | Isabella of Castile PDF eBook |
Author | Giles Tremlett |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 625 |
Release | 2017-03-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 163286522X |
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.
The Queen's Vow
Title | The Queen's Vow PDF eBook |
Author | C. W. Gortner |
Publisher | Random House Digital, Inc. |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345523962 |
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.
Isabella of Castile
Title | Isabella of Castile PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Rubin |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 502 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Queens |
ISBN | 0595320767 |
Queen Isabel I of Castile
Title | Queen Isabel I of Castile PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara F. Weissberger |
Publisher | Tamesis Books |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781855661592 |
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
Real Princesses
Title | Real Princesses PDF eBook |
Author | Valerie Wilding |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 2007-08-21 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0802796753 |
"Get the facts about princesses past and present--their clothes, their homes, their families, and their fates!"--P. [4] of cover.