| ISBN |
9781408853955 (hardback) |
| Name |
Tremlett, Giles author. |
| Title |
Isabella of Castile : Europe's first great queen / Giles Tremlett. |
| Published |
London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017. |
| ©2017 |
| Description |
ix, 607 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, maps, colour portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 562-584) and index. |
| Summary |
1474. Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania-- and Isabella ascended the throne, a female ruler in a male-dominated world. Her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon not only united their kingdoms, but began a royal partnership in which Isabella more than held her own. Tremlett chronicles Isabella's colorful life as she led her country out of the Middle Ages and harvested the ideas and tools of the Renaissance to turn her nation into a sharper, early modern state. |
| Subjects |
Isabella -- I, Queen of Spain, 1451-1504 |
| Queens -- Spain -- Biography |
| Castile (Spain) -- Kings and rulers -- Biography |
| Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516 |
| Genre |
Biographies |
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