Queen Isabel I of Castile. Power, Patronage, Persona

This multidisciplinary volume was inspired by the quincentenary of the death of Queen Isabel I of Castile, early modern Europe's first powerful queen regnant. Comprising work by distinguished art historians, musicologists, historians, and literary scholars from England, Spain, and the United States, it begins with a theoretical examination of medieval queenship itself that argues - against the grain of the volume - for its inseparability from kingship. Several essays examine the complex ways in which the Queen and her advisers shaped the music, literature, architecture, and painting of fifteenth-century Spain and how these in turn shaped the sovereign's power and persona. Others analyze influences on Isabel's reign from Aragón, Portugal, and northern Europe. A third group deals with issues of periodization, arguing from a variety of perspectives for the modernity of Isabelline culture. The evolving construction of Isabel's image from the mid-fifteenth to the late-twentieth century is also studied.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction: Questioning the Queen, Now and Then
1.- Two Bodies, One Spirit: Isabel and Fernando's Construction of Monarchical Partnership (Theresa Earenfight)
2.- Isabel of Castile's Portuguese Connections and the Opening of the Atlantic (William D. Phillips)
3.- Isabel of Castile and Her Music Books: Franco-Flemish Song in Fifteenth-Century Spain (Tess Knighton)
4.- The Reciprocal Construction of Isabelline Book Patronage (Ronald E. Surtz)
5.- Hernando de Talavera and Isabelline Imagery (Chiyo Ishikawa)
6.- Melodies for Private Devotion at the Court of Queen Isabel (Emilio Ros Fábregas)
7.- The Queen at War: Shared Sovereignity and Gender in Representations of the Granada Campaign (Elizabeth Lehfeldt)
8.- The Artistic Patronage of Isabel the Catholic: Medieval or Modern? (Rafael Domínguez Casas)
9.- Conflictive Subjectivity and the Politics of Truth and Justice in Cárcel de Amor (E. Michael Gerli)
10.- Juan de Anchieta and the Rest of the World (Kenneth Kreitner)
11.- Inventing the Catholic Queen: Images of Isabel I in History and Fiction (Nancy Marino)