Legitimizing the Queen: Propaganda and Ideology in the Reign of Isabel I of Castile

By Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths

Isabel I's reign in Castile responds to the ostensible needs expressed throughout the fifteenth-century for moral and political regeneration. Isabel is seen in many works as a just and wise monarch, as a redeemer of her people, and as a divine sovereign. This book reviews changes in the gendered construction of Isabelline sovereignty from the theoretical perspective of the speculum principum dedicated to her. It offers a Bourdieuian approach to the more literary specula texts used to legitimize and uphold Isabel's power.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611480183
• ISBN13: 9781611480184
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"