Covering a couple rather than a single, dominant ruler, Ferdinand and Isabella looks at the issue of gender and the dynamics of marriage over thirty-five years, as well as the practice of monarchical power.  The book covers Ferdinand's and Isabellas 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, and an equally total war through the Inquisition and the Church in general to convert Spanish Jews and Muslims to Christianity.

Suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of spanish history.

• Shows how Ferdinand and Isabella developed further an older Spanish ideology of strong monarchy and expressed it in cultural patronage, especially in Court
• Shows how, despite the instability in Spain which followed Isabellas death, in 1504 she and her husband forged the basis of their united monarchiesa as first a European and then a World Power
• Focuses on powerful personalities who impacted on whole societies in Europe and America
• Combines the exercise of power with royal and religious ideology
• Focuses on the often painful interaction between Christians, Jews and Muslims, and their respective religions
• This book views the history of Spain, in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, from the perspective of the rulers and their government

1. Inheritance and apprenticeship

2. Building a regime

3. The War against Islam

4. Defenders of the Faith

5. Diplomacy and Expansion

6. Court and Culture

7. Dynasty and Legacy

Epilogue

Bibliography

List of Dates

Monetary Values

Glossary

History of Spain  [LONGMAN UK IMPORTS]   (Western & World History)
Imperialism / Colonialism  [LONGMAN UK IMPORTS]   (Western & World 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.

The powerful personalities of Ferdinand and Isabella had a major impact on the  societies and states of early Europe and America. They unified Spain under one government and established the new Inquisition in 1478; they affirmed the countrys Catholic Christian identity by forcing Muslims and Jews to convert to Christianity and they sent Christopher Columbus to discover a New World. Their influence has passed down centuries, providing political and cultural role models during the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.

Powerful figures in history have generally achieved dominance as individuals, and have largely been male. This book is striking in being about a couple, not a single, dominant ruler. On the 500th anniversary of the death of Isabella, John Edwards provides a gripping and topical account of the dynamics of their power relationship and the religious controversies of their reign.

This is essential reading for those concerned with power, politics and religion and with interfaith relations in the premodern world.

John Edwards is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Fellow of the George Bell Institute, and Correspondent of the Spanish Royal Academy of History. Now a Research Fellow in Spanish at the University of Oxford, he was formerly Senior Lecturer in Medieval History and Reader in Spanish History at the University of Birmingham. He has written extensively on Spanish History, including The Spain of the Catholic Monarchs, 14741520 (2000).

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