![]() we are still flesh and blood - Juana's fleet - Twice married, but a virgin when she died - The third knife-thrust of pain - The dirty Tiber - We Germans call them rats - The end of Islam? - The Sultan of Egypt - Like a wild lioness - The final judgement - Afterword: A beam of glory - Appendix: Monetary values and coinage. ![]() When she was eighteen she already favored jewels and. Queen's daughter - Two kings, two brothers - Bulls - Choosing Ferdinand - Marrying Ferdinand - Rebel princess - The Borgias - Queen - and King! - Clouds of war - Under attack - Though I am just a woman - The turning point - Degrading the grandees - Rough justice - AdiĆ³s Beltraneja - The Inquisition : populism and purity - Crusade - They smote us town by town - God save King Boabdil! - The Tudors - Granada falls - Handover - Expulsion of the Jews - The vale of tears - The race to Asia - Partying women - A hellish night - A new world - Indians, parrots, and hammocks - Dividing up the world - A new continent - Borgia weddings - All the thrones of Europe - Though we are clerics. Isabella of Castile was a powerful queen as Europe passed from the Late Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Introduction: Europe's first great queen - No man ever held such power - The impotent - The. ![]()
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