TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edwards,John
TI  - Ferdinand and Isabella
T2  - Profiles In Power
SN  - 9781317893455
AV  - DP164 .E37 2014
U1  - 946/.03/0922 22
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge, Taylor and Francis
KW  - Ferdinand
KW  - Isabella
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - Spain & Portugal
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Spain
KW  - History
KW  - Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516
KW  - Espagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 1479-1516 (Ferdinand et Isabelle)
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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