Isabella: the warrior queen

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Draws on new scholarship to present a biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus' journey to the New World and became one of the most influential female rulers in history.

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Full title :Isabella : the warrior queen / Kirstin Downey.

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Publication Date:2014.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:544 pages

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780385534116, 0385534116
oclc:ocn966497728
LC Classification:DP163
Dewey Decimal:946.03092

A birth without fanfare -- A childhood in the shadows -- Frightening years -- Isabella faces the future alone -- Marriage -- Ferdinand and his family -- The newlyweds -- The Borgia connection -- Preparing to rule -- Isabella takes the throne -- The tribe of Isabel -- The whole world trembled -- The queen's war -- Architects of the Inquisition -- Landing in paradise -- Borgia gives her the world -- Lands of vanity and illusion -- Faith and family -- Turks at the door -- Israel in exile -- Three daughters -- A church without a shepherd -- The death of Queen Isabella -- The world after Isabel.

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Biographies BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women^BIOGR… Espagne -- Histoire -- 1479-1516 (Ferdi… History Isabella, I,, Queen of Spain Queens Queens -- Biography. -- Spain Reines -- Biographies. -- Espagne Spain Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabe…