Isabella : the warrior queen / Kirstin Downey.
Downey, Kirstin.
2014
DP163 .D69 2014 (Mapit)
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Title Isabella : the warrior queen / Kirstin Downey.
Author Downey, Kirstin.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780385534116 hardcover alkaline paper
0385534116 hardcover alkaline paper
Published New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2014.
Language English
Description x, 520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Call Number DP163 .D69 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 946.03092 B
Summary Drawing on new scholarship, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Woman Behind the New Deal presents a biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus' journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition and became one of the most influential female rulers in history.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-495) and index.
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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 Isabella.

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