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Ferdinand and Isabella
Ferdinand and Isabella
Author: J. Edwards
  • 2004 is the anniversary of Isabella’s death.
  • It focuses on powerful personalities, which had an impact on whole societies in Europe and America.
  • The combination of the exercise of power with royal and religious ideology.
  • Its focus on the often painful interaction between Christians, Jews and Muslims – an...  more »
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.John Edwards has been involved in work on Spanish history and literature for over thirty years, having published, to date, eight books and over eighty articles and conference papers in Britain, the USA, Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Poland and Israel. For twenty years he has taught at the University of Birmingham, successively as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Medieval History and as Reader in Spanish History. He is also a University Research Fellow in Spanish at Oxford University.
ISBN-13: 9780582218161
ISBN-10: 0582218160
Publication Date: 11/29/2004
Pages: 216
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Publisher: Longman
Book Type: Paperback
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