Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (798 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0595320767 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 500 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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An artful, sensitive biography A prerequisite for understanding Isabella is understanding the period and Rubin excels at delineating both.-Booklist"Rubin succeeds admirably in recounting the story of Spain's greatest queen and the impact of her reign on her country and the world a first rate exposition."-Kirkus"An excellent, well-developed picture of the complex, often contradictory forces of the European scene from which Columbus sailed."-Washington Times"Classic will make permanent literary history by dispelling many schoolroom myths."-Tulsa World
A Little Glossed Over This enjoyable book gives a fairly comprehensive look at Isabella of Castile. It does a good job of presenting the relationship between Ferdinand and Isabella - a rather unique one for that period of time since Isabella had more power. The author obviously admires Isabella, not a bad thing since. Prescott revisited Any potentional historian of Spain must contend with the work of William Prescott. Though cutting edge historians of Spain dismiss Prescott as old fashioned (he wrote over 150 years ago), his work can still be read with pleasure and little awe (particulalry when one remembers that Prescott was b. Diego Izurieta said Surpisingly Easy to Read!. Nancy Rubin's work on Isabel la Católica was very refreshing and difficult to put down. As a Spanish Literature student at UCLA, I recommend this book to anyone interested in the brightening their knowledge of this great woman. The chronology was consistant and the surrounding facts of th
. Packed with information, the book holds the reader's interest, despite pedestrian prose and a clear bias in Isabella's favor. Illustrations not seen by PW. Freelance journalist Rubin presents the queen also as loving wife and mother, promoter of the arts and sponsor of Columbus, views emphasized to soften the dominant persona: Isabella la Catolica. Her goal to make Spain exclusively and permanently Catholic drove the queen to supporting the tortures of the Inquisition, burning dissenters at the stake and evicting Jews from the country. From Publishers Weekly Isabella (1441-1504) was a master strategist, seizing the crown of Castile and, with husband Ferdinand of Aragon, ruling both her kingdom and his and winning a virtually nonstop succession of wars to preserve their strongholds. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc