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Isabel rules : constructing queenship, wielding power /

As queen of Spain, Isabel I of Castile (Isabella the Catholic) laid the foundations for its emergence as the largest empire the West has ever known. This is the first book to examine the formation of the queens image, focusing on strategies used to cope with the dissonance created by the combination...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weissberger, Barbara F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Anxious masculinity
  • Fashioning Isabel's sovereignty
  • The discourse of effeminacy in Isabelline historiography
  • The neo-Gothic theory and the queen's body
  • Luis de Lucena and the rules of the game
  • The mad queen
  • Isabel in the Twentieth Century.