Table of Contents

1. Inheritance and apprenticeship 2. Building a regime 3. The War against Islam 4. Defenders of the Faith 5. Diplomacy and Expansion 6. Court and Culture 7. Dynasty and Legacy Epilogue

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This book shows how Ferdinand and Isabella exercised power at work as a ruling couple, probably unique in European history, with a heady mixture of culture and intolerance.

About the Author

John Edwards has been involved in work on Spanish history and literature for over thirty years, having published, to date, eight books and over eighty articles and conference papers in Britain, the USA, Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Poland and Israel.

For twenty years he has taught at the University of Birmingham, successively as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Medieval History and as Reader in Spanish History. He is also a University Research Fellow in Spanish at Oxford University.