Download or read book The Queen of Granada written by M. z. Riffi and published by . This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rita, a 16-year-old Danish girl with supernatural powers, runs away from home to southern Spain, where she meets Roma medicine woman Rosan. It is the beginning of Rita's exciting adventures.
Download or read book The Queen of Granada written by Angiolo Robson Slous and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Almeyda Queen of Granada A tragedy in five acts and in verse written by Sophia LEE (Author of “The Chapter of Accidents”.) and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Almeyda written by Sophia Lee and published by . This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophia Lee (1750-1824) was an English novelist and dramatist. She was the daughter of John Lee, actor and theatrical manager. Her first piece, The Chapter of Accidents, a three-act opera based on Denis Diderot's Le Pere de Famille, was produced by George Colman the Elder at the Haymarket Theatre in 1780 and was an immediate success. When her father died in 1781, Lee spent the proceeds of the opera on establishing a school at Bath, where she made a home for her sisters Anne and Harriet. Her novel The Recess; or, a Tale of Other Times (1783) was a historical romance; and the play Almeyda: Queen of Grenada (1796) was a long tragedy in blank verse, which opened at Drury Lane in 1796 but ran for only four nights. With her sister Harriet Lee she wrote a series of Canterbury Tales (1797). Other works included: The Life of a Lover (1804) and Ormond; or, The Debauchee (1810).
Download or read book Almeyda Queen of Granada written by Sophia Lee and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: The Moorish Almeyda has been hostage to the King of Castile and loves his son. She is returned as heir to Granada on her father's death and she re-joins the Moors.
Download or read book Almeyda Queen of Granada written by Sophia Lee and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Moor s Last Stand written by Elizabeth Drayson and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1482, Abu Abdallah Muhammad XI became the twenty-third Muslim King of Granada. He would be the last. This is the first history of the ruler, known as Boabdil, whose disastrous reign and bitter defeat brought seven centuries of Moorish Spain to an end. It is an action-packed story of intrigue, treachery, cruelty, cunning, courtliness, bravery and tragedy. Basing her vivid account on original documents and sources, Elizabeth Drayson traces the origins and development of Islamic Spain. She describes the thirteenth-century founding of the Nasrid dynasty, the cultured and stable society it created, and the feuding which threatened it and had all but destroyed it by 1482, when Boabdil seized the throne. The new Sultan faced betrayals by his family, factions in the Alhambra palace, and ever more powerful onslaughts from the forces of Ferdinand and Isabella, monarchs of the newly united kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. By stratagem, diplomacy, courage and strength of will Boabdil prolonged his reign for ten years, but he never had much chance of survival. In 1492 Ferdinand and Isabella, magnificently attired in Moorish costume, entered Granada and took possession of the city. Boabdil went into exile. The Christian reconquest of Spain, that has reverberated so powerfully down the centuries, was complete.
Download or read book Rivers of Gold written by Hugh Thomas and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain’s early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas’s magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical literature: amazing discoveries, ambition, greed, religious fanaticism, court intrigue, and a battle for the soul of humankind. Hugh Thomas shows Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as a world power on the brink of greatness. Her monarchs, Fernando and Isabel, had retaken Granada from Islam, thereby completing restoration of the entire Iberian peninsula to Catholic rule. Flush with success, they agreed to sponsor an obscure Genoese sailor’s plan to sail west to the Indies, where, legend purported, gold and spices flowed as if they were rivers. For Spain and for the world, this decision to send Christopher Columbus west was epochal—the dividing line between the medieval and the modern. Spain’s colonial adventures began inauspiciously: Columbus’s meagerly funded expedition cost less than a Spanish princess’s recent wedding. In spite of its small scale, it was a mission of astounding scope: to claim for Spain all the wealth of the Indies. The gold alone, thought Columbus, would fund a grand Crusade to reunite Christendom with its holy city, Jerusalem. The lofty aspirations of the first explorers died hard, as the pursuit of wealth and glory competed with the pursuit of pious impulses. The adventurers from Spain were also, of course, curious about geographical mysteries, and they had a remarkable loyalty to their country. But rather than bridging earth and heaven, Spain’s many conquests bore a bitter fruit. In their search for gold, Spaniards enslaved “Indians” from the Bahamas and the South American mainland. The eloquent protests of Bartolomé de las Casas, here much discussed, began almost immediately. Columbus and other Spanish explorers—Cortés, Ponce de León, and Magellan among them—created an empire for Spain of unsurpassed size and scope. But the door was soon open for other powers, enemies of Spain, to stake their claims. Great men and women dominate these pages: cardinals and bishops, priors and sailors, landowners and warriors, princes and priests, noblemen and their determined wives. Rivers of Gold is a great story brilliantly told. More significant, it is an engrossing history with many profound—often disturbing—echoes in the present.
Download or read book Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Isabella written by Kirstin Downey and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in history. In 1474, when most women were almost powerless, twenty-three-year-old Isabella defied a hostile brother and a mercurial husband to seize control of Castile and León. Her subsequent feats were legendary. She ended a twenty-four-generation struggle between Muslims and Christians, forcing North African invaders back over the Mediterranean Sea. She laid the foundation for a unified Spain. She sponsored Columbus’s trip to the Indies and negotiated Spanish control over much of the New World. She also annihilated all who stood against her by establishing a bloody religious Inquisition that would darken Spain’s reputation for centuries. Whether saintly or satanic, no female leader has done more to shape our modern world. Yet history has all but forgotten Isabella’s influence. Using new scholarship, Downey’s luminous biography tells the story of this brilliant, fervent, forgotten woman, the faith that propelled her through life, and the land of ancient conflicts and intrigue she brought under her command.
Download or read book A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Isabel the Queen written by Peggy K. Liss and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Isabel of Castile is perhaps best known for her patronage of Christopher Columbus and for the religious zeal that led to the Spanish Inquisition, the waging of holy war, and the expulsion of Jews and Muslims across the Iberian peninsula. In this sweeping biography, newly revised and annotated to coincide with the five-hundredth anniversary of Isabel's death, Peggy K. Liss draws upon a rich array of sources to untangle the facts, legends, and fiercely held opinions about this influential queen and her decisive role in the tumultuous politics of early modern Spain. Isabel the Queen reveals a monarch who was a woman of ruthless determination and strong religious beliefs, a devoted wife and mother, and a formidable leader. As Liss shows, Isabel's piety and political ambition motivated her throughout her life, from her earliest struggles to claim her crown to her secret marriage to King Fernando of Aragn, a union that brought success in civil war, consolidated Christian hegemony over the Iberian peninsula, and set the stage for Spain to become a world empire.
Download or read book A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada to Which Is Added Legends of the Conquest of Spain written by Washington Irving and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic work of historical fiction, Irving tells the tale of the fall of Granada, the last bastion of Muslim Spain, to the forces of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Along the way, he interweaves a number of legends and anecdotes, creating a rich tapestry of Spanish history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Almeyda written by Sophia Lee and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queens of Old Spain written by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume and published by London, E. Grant Richards. This book was released on 1906 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
