Isabella of Castile : Europe's first great queen
Tremlett, Giles2017
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Acclaimed historian Giles Tremlett chronicles the life of Isabella of Castile as she led her country out of the murky middle ages and harnessed the newest ideas and tools of the early Renaissance to turn her ill-disciplined, quarrelsome nation into a sharper, modern state with a powerful, clear-minded, and ambitious monarch at its centre. With authority, insight and flair he relates the story of this legendary, if controversial, first initiate in a small club of great European queens that includes Elizabeth I of England, Russia's Catherine the Great, and Britain's Queen Victoria.
Main title:
Isabella of Castile : Europe's first great queen / Giles Tremlett.
Author:
Tremlett, Giles, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2017.
Collation:
ix, 607 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408853955 (hbk)
Dewey class:
946.03092B/ISA946.03092 ISA946.03
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2452408
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