Ferdinand and Isabella
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Ferdinand III
Ferdinand's Reign
ferdinands
Ferdinand’s Reign
Fernando Del Pulgar
Ferrante II
gender and power dynamics
Gran Canaria
granada
Granada War
Henry IV
Hernando Del Pulgar
Iberian religious reform
interfaith relations Spain
Isabella's Court
Isabella's Reign
isabellas
Isabella’s Court
Isabella’s Reign
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John II
Juan Del Encina
La Gomera
late medieval monarchy
Louis XI
mayor
mayordomo
Mayordomo Mayor
monarchical power structures
partidas
reign
Royal Chapel
Santa Hermandad
siete
Sixtus IV
Spanish Inquisition history
war
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138135680
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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, and to reform and purify the religious and social lives of the established Christians themselves. For readers interested in Early European History.
