Ferdinand and Isabella

by John Edwards

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582218160
• ISBN13: 9780582218161
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.2"