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The subject of this essay is one that presents special methodological difficulties. To write about Ferdinand without Isabella until recently seemed unthinkable. The tendency to treat the two Reyes Católicos as a single unit is expressed not merely in the grant of that title by Pope Alexander VI in 1496, but also in the titles of two of the most recent books on their rule over Spain, Miguel Ángel Ladero Quesada’s La España de los Reyes Católicos, and John Edwards’ identically titled The Spain of the Catholic Monarchs.1 It is fair to state that these books are assessments of the state of the Spanish kingdoms rather than attempts to delineate the life of either ruler, and that they are firmly based in traditional interpretations of the two rulers; it is therefore only to be expected that they deal rather briefly with Ferdinand’s projects in Italy, the New World, and other lands beyond Iberia, even though these were developments with quite enormous consequences in the Mediterranean and in the wider world.
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Abulafia, D. (2014). Ferdinand the Catholic: King and Consort. In: Beem, C., Taylor, M. (eds) The Man behind the Queen. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137448354_3
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