The queenship of the first European Renaissance queen regnant never ceases to fascinate. Was she a saint or a bigoted zealot? A pious wife or the one wearing the pants? Was she ultimately responsible for genocide? A case has been made to canonize her. Does she deserve to be called Saint Isabel? As different groups from fascists to feminists continue to fight over Isabel as cultural capital, we ask which (if any) of these recyclings are legitimate or appropriate. Or has this figure taken on a life of her own?
Contributors to this volume: Roger Boase, David A. Boruchoff, John Edwards, Emily Francomano, Edward Friedman, Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths, Michelle Hamilton, Elizabeth Teresa Howe, Hilaire Kallendorf, William D. Phillips, Jr., Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, Caroline Travalia, and Jessica Weiss.
Author(s): Hilaire Kallendorf
Series: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 104
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 459
City: Leiden
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction: Inventing Isabel
1 Unknowable Virtue
2 Isabel’s Queenship
Chapter 2 Isabel, Her Chroniclers, and the Inquisition: Self-Fashioning and Historical Memory
Chapter 3 The Learning of Ladies at the Isabelline Court
Chapter 4 Isabel i of Castile and Saintly Propaganda: Interpreting the St Anne Retable in the Capilla del Condestable
1 The Santa Ana Retablo: Patronage and Public Piety
2 At the Altar: Mother, Virgin, Queen
Chapter 5 Art Patronized and Collected by Queen Isabel
1 Constructed Environments of San Juan de los Reyes and the Cartuja de Miraflores
2 Court Painters and Isabel’s Painting Collection
3 Isabel’s Tapestry Collection
4 The Function of Art at the Isabelline Court
5 Conclusion
Chapter 6 Ludic Dimensions of Courtly Love at the Court of Isabel la Católica
1 Poetry and Games in Verse
2 Courtly Love
3 The Game of Chess, Isabel’s Messianic Role, and Sumptuary Laws
4 Jousting and Heraldic Invenciones
5 The Catholic Monarchs’ Personal Emblems
6 The End of an Era
Chapter 7 Isabel of Castile and the Opening of the Atlantic
Chapter 8 Hostile Histories: Isabel and Fernando in Jewish and Muslim Narratives
Chapter 9 Windows into Souls: Isabel, Religion, and the Spanish Inquisition
Chapter 10 Isabel’s Years of Sorrow: Consoling the Catholic Queen
1 Isabel’s First Sorrow: The Death of Prince Juan
2 Performing Grief at the Iberian Court
3 Consoling the Catholic Queen
4 Queen Isabel in Alonso Ortiz’s Treatise
5 By Way of Conclusion
Chapter 11 Staging the Queen: Lope de Vega Reads Isabel la Católica
Chapter 12 The Legend of Isabel la Católica, Founder of Spain
1 The Concept of Nation
2 The Theory That Isabel and Ferdinand Founded Spain: Ideas of the Franco Regime
3 Sources from the Past
4 The Myth of Isabel in Other Times of Crisis
5 Reality or Myth?
6 Territorial Circumstances of Spain: Crowns, Kingdoms, and Principalities
7 Common Borders
8 Political and Economic Situations in Spain
9 Cultural Aspects of Spain: Religious Homogenization
10 Common Language
11 Consciousness of a Spanish Nation: Isabel’s and Ferdinand’s Perceptions of Spain
12 Spaniards’ View of Their Country
13 Subsequent Rulers’ Opinions of Their Realm
14 The Spanish Nation Today
15 Conclusion
Chapter 13 Isabel la Católica for the 21st Century: Popular and Political Recreations
1 Isabel
2 The Ministry of Time
3 Isabel Goes Back to the Movies: The Queen of Spain
4 Saint Isabel?
5 A Political Coda and Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
