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Author / Creator:	Edwards, John, 1949-
Imprint:	London : Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (213 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Profiles In Power Profiles In Power.
Subject:	Ferdinand -- V, -- King of Spain, -- 1452-1516. Isabella -- I, -- Queen of Spain, -- 1451-1504. Ferdinand -- V, -- King of Spain, -- 1452-1516 Isabella -- I, -- Queen of Spain, -- 1451-1504 Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516. Spain. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11304083

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ISBN:	9781317893455 131789345X
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	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, an.
Other form:	Print version: Edwards, J. Ferdinand and Isabella. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2014 9780582218161

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