Description: Thank you for looking at our listing. A purchase is supporting Friends of Spanish Peaks Library District! These books are all donated from different sources. This book is in good condition, and an ex-library book, dust jacket with protective plastic, library stamps and markings, see photos for details. If you find several items, message me and I’ll be happy to combine shipping. n October 19, 1469-at a quiet ceremony in a private horne - 18-year-old Isabella, heiress to the throne of Castile, secretly wed 17-year-old Ferdinand,heir to the kingdom of Aragón. "Together they imposed on their country a unity that their predecessors would scarcely have believed possible are at which contemporaries never ceased to express their amazement today writes Melveena McKendrick in this book. Her story focuses on the year 1492 which marked the high point of Ferdinand and Isabella's reign the final expulsion of the Jews from Spain; the conquest of Gra. 1, de-stroying the last remnant of moslem power in Spain; and of course, Co-lumbus' momentous voyage "into an unknown that only the imagination had penetrated" to discover lands that would transform Spain into a vast imperial power. This compelling account shows how Isabella - through her extraordinary capacity for action in po-litical, spiritual, and cultural arenas - forged modern Spain out of the feudal anarchy of the Middle Ages; and how Ferdinand - through his gifts in the field of European politics and diplomacy-created a newly prosperous and unified Spain, which, in the 16th century, would dominate Europe and America. In her narrative the author explains the reasons for the founding of the Inquisition, an unintentionally cruel weapon of political des-potism. A woman of consuming faith and crusading zeal, Isabella believed that all her subjects would benefit by faith in rigidly orthodox Christianity. A woman of enormous political acumen, she felt that her country's strength depended on absolute unity of race and creed. The sovereigns treatment of Jewish and Moorish minorities demonstrated "qualities of intolerance, self-satis-faction, and arrogance that were all too often to characterize Spanish policy in the centuries to come."
Price: 12.75 USD
Location: Walsenburg, Colorado
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated, Dust Jacket, Ex-Library
Author: Melveena McKendrick
Publisher: American Heritage Publishing Company Inc.
Topic: Historical
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: History
Year Printed: 1968
