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Author Edwards, John, 1949-

Title Ferdinand and Isabella / John Edwards
Published London : Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (213 pages)
Series Profiles In Power
Profiles In Power
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Map; Introduction; 1 Inheritance and Apprenticeship; 2 Building a Regime; Crown of Castile; Crown of Aragon; 3 The War against Islam; 4 Defenders of the Faith; Jews, converts and the Inquisition; Christianity and the Church; Islam; 5 Diplomacy and Expansion; Conquest; Diplomacy; Exploration and colonization; 6 Court and Culture; The courts; Culture; 7 Dynasty and Legacy; Royal marriages; Isabella's will; Legacy; Epilogue; Chronology; Monetary Values; Glossary; Further Reading; Index
Summary This book is about a couple, not a single, dominant ruler. Thus it raises issues of gender, and the dynamics of a marriage over thirty-five years, as well as the practice of monarchical power. The reader sees Ferdinand and Isabella struggle to establish their regime, and then work out an elaborate reform programme in Church and State. It sees them fight a 'total war', by fifteenth-century standards, against Muslim Granada, leading to that kingdom's conquest, and an equally 'total' war, through the Inquisition and the Church in general, to convert Spanish Jews and Muslims to Christianity, an
Notes Print version record
Subject Ferdinand V, King of Spain, 1452-1516.
Isabella I, Queen of Spain, 1451-1504.
SUBJECT Ferdinand V, King of Spain, 1452-1516 fast
Isabella I, Queen of Spain, 1451-1504 fast
Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- Spain & Portugal.
SUBJECT Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126075
Subject Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317893455
131789345X