1st Edition

Ferdinand and Isabella

By J. Edwards Copyright 2005
216 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Inheritance and apprenticeship 2. Building a regime 3. The War against Islam 4. Defenders of the Faith 5. Diplomacy and Expansion 6. Court and Culture 7. Dynasty and Legacy Epilogue

Biography

J. Edwards