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ISABELLA OF CASTILE

ISABELLA OF CASTILE

EUROPE'S FIRST GREAT QUEEN

GILES TREMLETT

24,99 €
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Publisher:
BLOOMSBURY
Year of publication:
2017
ISBN:
978-1-4088-5406-8
Pages:
624
24,99 €
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1474. Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania-- and Isabella ascended the throne, a female ruler in a male-dominated world. Her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon not only united their kingdoms, but began a royal partnership in which Isabella more than held her own. Tremlett chronicles Isabella's colorful life as she led her country out of the Middle Ages and harvested the ideas and tools of the Renaissance to turn her nation into a sharper, early modern state.

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