“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
under Sillitoe
Isabella I Queen of Castile
Standard Name: Isabella I,, Queen of Castile
Used Form: Isabella I, Queen of Spain
Used Form: Isabella the Catholic
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Grace Aguilar | The martyr named in the title is a Spanish Jew named Marie, who refuses to convert despite her love for an English Catholic man, and the further inducements represented by the torture of the Inquisition |
| Textual Features | Norah Lofts | Lofts, said a reviewer of Anne Boleyn: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Wife, discusses some interesting issues. One is that Catherine of Aragon
might well fail to sympathise with her husband's... |
| Textual Production | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | Cordoba was capital of Moorish or Islamic Spain from the eighth to the thirteenth century. Gonzalo de Córdoba
was a military leader in the conquest of Granada in the late fifteenth century, when in early... |
| Textual Production | Ruth Fainlight | All Citizens are Soldiers had been produced in London two years before this at Joan Littlewood
's Theatre Royal, Stratford East
, in East London. |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | Castile for Isabella was the first novel in JP
's historical trilogy on Isabella, Queen of Castile
, and Ferdinand, King of Aragon
, the fifteenth-century monarchs who united Spain's two realms. Duggan, Alfred Leo. “Review of Castile for Isabella by Jean Plaidy”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3039, 27 May 1960, p. 340. 340 |
| Textual Production | Norah Lofts | NL
published Crown of Aloes, a historical novel on Queen Isabella of Spain
. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 80 |
Timeline
1478: The medieval institution of the Inquisition...
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1478
The medieval institution of the Inquisition was revived as the Spanish Inquisition
at the request of the Spanish royal couple Isabel of Castile
and Ferdinand of Aragon
.
Indices of Banned Books. http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/exhibits/inquisition/text/banned.html.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
2 January 1492: At the battle of Granada in Spain (actually...
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2 January 1492
At the battle of Granada in Spain (actually the climax of a three-week siege) Ferdinand
and Isabella
of Spain defeated the Moors . They expelled the Jews the same year.
Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering our Past. Encounter Books, 2000.
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