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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Downey, Kirstin, author.     Subjects     Isabella I, Queen of Spain, 1451-1504.     Queens -- Spain -- Biography.     Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Downey, Kirstin, author.       by title:      Isabella [electronic...         MARC Display

Isabella [electronic resource] : the warrior queen / Kirstin Downey. by Downey, Kirstin, author. [New York] : Books on Tape, 2014. Subjects Isabella I, Queen of Spain, 1451-1504.   Queens -- Spain -- Biography.   Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=70738A48-35FE-4CB0-A6D4-30FFFA02FB2F This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://excerpts.contentreserve.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/1547528-Isabella.wma Electronic Resource http://excerpts.contentreserve.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/1547528-Isabella.mp3 Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780553398489 (electronic audio bk.) 0553398482 (electronic audio bk.) Description:  1 online resource (1 sound file (21 hr., 12 min., 35 sec.)) : digital Edition:  Unabridged. Requests:  0 Summary:  Born at a time when Christianity was dying out and the Ottoman Empire was aggressively expanding, Isabella was inspired in her youth by tales of Joan of Arc, a devout young woman who unified her people and led them to victory against foreign invaders. In 1474, when most women were almost powerless, twenty-three-year-old Isabella defied a hostile brother and mercurial husband to seize control of Castile and León. Her subsequent feats were legendary. She ended a twenty-four-generation struggle between Muslims and Christians, forcing Moorish invaders back over the Mediterranean Sea. She laid the foundation for a unified Spain. She sponsored Columbus's trip to the Indies and negotiated Spanish control over much of the New World with the help of Rodrigo Borgia, the infamous Pope Alexander VI. She also annihilated all who stood against her by establishing a bloody religious Inquisition that would darken Spain's reputation for centuries. Whether saintly or satanic, no female leader has done more to shape our modern world, where millions of people in two hemispheres speak Spanish and practice Catholicism. Yet history has all but forgotten Isabella's influence, due to hundreds of years of misreporting that often attributed her accomplishments to Ferdinand, the bold and philandering husband she adored. Using new scholarship, Downey's luminous biography tells the story of this brilliant, fervent, forgotten woman, the faith that propelled her through life, and the land of ancient conflicts and intrigue she brought under her command.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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