The Queen who shaped the music, literature, architecture, and painting of late medieval Spain.
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.
BARBARA WEISSBERGER is Associate Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota.
OTHER CONTRIBUTORS:Rafael Domínguez Casas, Theresa Earenfight, Michael Gerli, Chiyo Ishikawa, Tess Knighton, Kenneth Kreitner, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, Nancy F. Marino, William D. Phillips, Jr., Emilio Ros-Fábregas, Ronald E. Surtz
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Introduction: Questioning the Queen, Now and Then
Two Bodies, One Spirit: Isabel and Fernando’s Construction of Monarchical Partnership – Theresa Earenfight
Isabel of Castile’s Portuguese Connections and the Opening of the Atlantic – William D. Phillips
Isabel of Castile and Her Music Books: Franco-Flemish Song in Fifteenth-Cen tury Spain – Tess Knighton
The Reciprocal Construction of Isabelline Book Patronage – Ronald E. Surtz
Hernando de Talavera and Isabelline Imagery – Chiyo Ishikawa
Melodies for Private Devotion at the Court of Queen Isabel – Emilio Ros Fábregas
The Queen at War: Shared Sovereignity and Gender in Representations of the Granada Campaign – Elizabeth Lehfeldt
The Artistic Patronage of Isabel the Catholic: Medieval or Modern? – Rafael Domínguez Casas
Conflictive Subjectivity and the Politics of Truth and Justice in
Cárcel de Amor – E. Michael Gerli
Juan de Anchieta and the Rest of the World – Kenneth Kreitner
Inventing the Catholic Queen: Images of Isabel I in History and Fiction – Nancy Marino
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TESS KNIGHTON is an ICREA Research Professor affiliated to the Institució Milà i Fontanals-CSIC in Barcelona and an Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.
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