gender:
in succession, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 7.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 14.1, 24.1, 24.2
see also women
Genoa, 14.1, 15.1
Geography (Ptolemy)
Georgius de Hungaria
Gerber, Jane
Germana de Foix, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4
Germany, 11.1, 18.1
Ghent
Ghent Altarpiece (Van Eyck), 18.1, 18.2
Ghirlandaio, Domenico
Gibraltar (Jabal Tarik; Mountain of Tarek), 1.1, 2.1, 23.1
Girón, Pedro, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 9.1
Girón, Rodrigo Téllez
Gitlitz, David Martin
God, 1.1, 1.2
gods, mythological
Goffman, Daniel
gold
alleged Jewish smuggling of
in New World, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 17.6, 17.7, 17.8, 17.9, 24.1, aft.1
Golden Horn
Gonzalo de Madrid
Good Hope, Cape of
Goodwin, Jason
Granada (capital):
Isabella’s burial site in, 23.1, 24.1
siege and surrender of, 13.1, 14.1
Granada, Muslim Emirate of, 1.1, 2.1, 10.1
internal strife in
Isabella’s determination to reconquer
massacre of Jews in
war against, see Reconquest
Granada, Royal Chapter of, memorial woodcarvings in
grandparents:
in choice of names
in Isabella’s upbringing
Greece:
classical, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 11.1, 12.1
Turks in, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 19.1, 19.2
“Greek fire,”
Gregory XI, Pope
Griolanus, Franciscus Pratensis
Guacanagari (cacique), 15.1, 17.1, 17.2
Guadalupe, shrine of, see Santa Maria de Guadalupe, Church of
Guadix, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5
Guanches tribe
Guas, Juan
gunpowder, 13.1, 19.1, 22.1
Gutierre de Cárdenas, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 15.1
Guzmán family
Hagia Sophia, Cathedral of, 1.1, 12.1, 20.1
Haiti, 15.1, 17.1
Ha-Kohen, Joseph
Halicarnassus, Mausoleum of
Halima Hatun
Hapsburg family, 11.1, 19.1, 19.2, 24.1, 24.1
harems, 1.1, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 13.1, 20.1
conflicts within
Haro, Count of, 9.1, 13.1
Harvard University, Houghton Library at
Harvey, L. P., 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5
Hayreddin Pasha, 20.1, 24.1
Henry III, king of Castile
Henry VII, king of England, 4.1, 11.1, 15.1, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 21.1, 21.2, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
Henry VIII, king of England, 11.1, 21.1, 22.1, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2
Henry the Navigator, prince of Portugal, 2.1, 15.1
Hercules, 1.1, 4.1
heresy:
Christian, 2.1, 8.1, 13.1, 14.1, 18.1, 20.1, 20.2, 22.1, 24.1
Muslim, 19.1, 19.2, 24.1
as target of Inquisition, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 24.1
Hispania, 1.1, 14.1
Hispanic people
Hispaniola (Haiti), settlement established at, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 19.1, 21.1
Historia de las Indias (Las Casas)
History of Venice, A (Norwich)
Hojeda, Alonso de, 14.1, 14.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 21.1
Holy Child of La Guardia
holy communion, 2.1, 14.1, 18.1, 18.2
Holy League
Holy Office, see Inquisition
Holy Roman Empire, 3.1, 11.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 19.1, 24.1, 24.2
holy war (gazâ), as foundation of Ottoman Empire
Homer
homosexuality, 2.1, 2.2, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 293
in child abuse
Ottoman acceptance of
targeted by Inquisition
Homza, Lu Ann
Hopkins, T. C. F.
hospitals
hostages, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 18.1, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2
Huelva, 15.1, 15.2
Hungary, 8.1, 12.1, 13.1, 19.1, 19.2, 22.1
hurricanes
Ibarra, Aldonza Roig de
Ibn Khallikan
Ibn Shuaib
illuminated manuscripts
“Illustrious Generation, The,”
Imber, Colin
Inalcik, Halil, 12.1, 19.1, 19.2
India:
Columbus’s misconception about, 17.1, 17.2
sea route to
Indians, New World
brutal mistreatment of, 17.1, 21.1, 24.1
burial customs of
as captives, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1
casualties of, 17.1, 17.2
as Christian missionary target, 15.1, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 23.1, 24.1
death from disease of
first clash with
first depiction in Western art of
friendly, 15.1, 16.1, 17.1
land usurped from
perceived as barbarous
perceived as natural and pure
protection and rights of, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 21.1, 23.1, 24.1
Spanish intermingling with, 17.1, 17.2, 24.1
syphilis among
warlike, 15.1, 17.1
indulgences, selling of, 2.1, 8.1, 15.1
infectious diseases, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 6.1, 13.1, 14.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, aft.1
infertility, treatment for
Innocent III, Pope, 14.1, 19.1
Innocent VIII, Pope, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1
inquisitio (investigation), as term,
Inquisition (Holy Office), 14.1, 22.1, aft.1
Alexander IV on
anonymous denunciation required by, 14.1, 14.2, 20.1
corruption in, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
duration of
historic roots of
instruction manual for
Isabella in founding and supporting of, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 20.1, 23.1, 24.1
Isabella’s rationale for, 14.1, 14.2
in New World, 16.1, 17.1
objections to, 14.1, 14.2, 18.1
onset and escalation of
papal bulls on
as political tool of Ferdinand
property confiscated by, 14.1, 14.2
prosecution procedures of
scholarly debate over
signs of guilt in
targets of, 14.1, 20.1, 20.2, 22.1, 24.1, 24.2
uncertainties and misconceptions about
Inter Caetera,
In the Shadow of the Virgin (Starr-LeBeau)
Isabel (daughter of Juana and Philip)
Isabel (daughter of María and Manuel)
Isabel (Ferdinand and Isabella’s daughter), 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2, 18.1
birth of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1
burial of, 18.1, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1
childhood of, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 14.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
death of, 18.1, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1
in line of succession, 10.1, 10.2, 18.1
marriage prospects for, 11.1, 18.1, 18.2
marriages of, 18.1, 18.2, 20.1
pregnancy of
widowhood and mourning of, 18.1, 18.2, 20.1, 24.1, 24.2
Isabella, Queen of Castile and León:
acclaim for
as advocate of Church reform
and Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 19.1, 19.2, 21.1, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1
ancestral links to England
appearance and personal style of, itr.1, 2.1, 4.1, 15.1, 21.1
author’s interest in
bravery of, itr.1, 2.1, 9.1
burial site of, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
in campaign for throne
cha
stity and modesty of, 7.1, 23.1
close relationships between Jews and, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
as compatible with Ferdinand, 7.1, 11.1
conflicting spiritual and secular values of
death of, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5
descendants of
devout Catholicism of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 7.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 21.1, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, aft.1
diplomatic skills of, 4.1, 5.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 18.1, 18.2, 22.1
Enrique’s vacillating relationship with, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 23.1
family valued by
Ferdinand’s absences from, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 11.1, 13.1
financial hardship of, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
funeral cortege of
generosity of, 11.1, 23.1
in global expansion
Gonzalo and, 3.1, 22.1
heroic lineage of
independence and self-determination of, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 19.1
infertile years of, 11.1, 14.1
intellect of, 2.1, 7.1, 8.1, 18.1
in line of succession, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
marriage of Ferdinand and, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 24.1
masculine symbolism adopted by, 10.1, 10.2
Mendoza family and
militant religiosity of, 2.1, 14.1
miscarriage of
as mother, 11.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 18.5, 18.6, 18.7, 18.8, 18.9, 18.10, 19.1, 21.1, 22.1
mourning for, 23.1, 23.2
as newlywed, 7.1, 8.1
opposing viewpoints on
in Ottoman threat, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
paradoxical character of
personal high point for
philanthropy of
kidnap attempt on
power shift toward, 9.1, 9.2
pragmatism of, 8.1, 8.2
pregnancies of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2
in reconciliation attempts with Enrique, 4.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
religious perspective of, itr.1, 1.1, 8.1, 11.1, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2, 20.1, 22.1, 24.5
as rigid and unforgiving
symbol of
wedding of, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 24.1
will and last wishes of, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4
wisdom tooth of
Isabella, Queen of Castile and León, early years, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 12.1
adolescence of, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 12.1
appearance of
birth of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 8.1, 12.1, 24.1, aft.1
childhood of, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2
in civil war and Alfonso’s claim to throne
education of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
evolving religious intolerance of, 16.1, 20.1, 20.2
marriage prospects for, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 10.1
parental surrogates for, 2.1, 2.2
as princess of Asturias
Queen Juana and, 2.1, 3.1
relocated to Enrique’s court, 2.1, 12.1
threats to, 3.1, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2
Isabella, Queen of Castile and León, reign
apportionment of discovered lands to, 16.1, 16.2
bureaucracy revamped by
in campaign for throne
Church reform of, 10.1, 11.1, 16.1, 22.1, 23.1, 24.1
Columbus and, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 17.6
in conflict with Alfonso V
declining health of, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 22.1, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
domestic crisis addressed by
Ferdinand in, see Ferdinand and Isabella, joint monarchy of
as financially strapped
foreign policy of, 9.1, 18.1
Indians protected by, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 21.1, 23.1, 24.1
Inquisition founded by, see Inquisition, Isabella in founding of
Isabella as independent source of power in, 5.1, 9.1, 10.1
Isabella’s sense of destiny in, 9.1, 10.1, 15.1
legacy of, itr.1, 12.1, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 20.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, aft.1
loss of control and power by, 21.1, 23.1, 24.1
marital crisis over female sovereignty in
as most important person in Spanish history
New World affected by, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2
New World’s value recognized by
Ottoman threat and, 12.1, 13.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
popular love and esteem for, 24.1, 24.2
rewards for loyalty to, 10.1, 10.2
self-coronation ceremony of, itr.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 15.1, 23.1
self-crafted image of, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 21.1
sullied legacy of, itr.1, 12.1, 20.1
throne assumed by, itr.1, 10.1, 18.1, 21.1, 23.1
in war of Reconquest of Spain
world after
Isabella of Aragon
Isabelline architecture, 11.1, 18.1
Isabel of Barcelos, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 5.1, 15.1
Isabel of Portugal, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 17.1, 18.1
burial site of, 11.1, 18.1, 18.2
death of
depression and instability of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 10.1
Enrique and
sequestered in Arèvalo, 2.1, 3.1, 24.1
unhappy marriage of, 1.1, 3.1
Ishikawa, Chiyo
Isidore of Seville
Islam:
afterlife in
assault on literature and culture of
converts to, 1.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1
fanaticism in
founding and initial expansion of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
holy war in
slavery permitted by
see also Muslims; Nasrid dynasty; Ottoman Turks
Istanbul (Constantinople), 12.1, 12.2, 20.1
Italianated, as term
Italy, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 8.1, 8.2, 15.1, 16.1, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2
Charles VIII and, 19.1, 19.2
Columbus’s roots in
French invasions of, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4
Ottoman threat to, 9.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4
pilgrims in
political tensions in
Renaissance culture in, 6.1, 18.1
Jabal Tarik (Gibraltar)
Jabez (Hebrew scholar)
Jacobs, Martin
Jacopo de Campi
Jaén, 13.1, 14.1, 18.1
Jamaica
James, prince of Scotland
James IV, king of Scotland, 18.1, 19.1
James, Saint (Santiago), 1.1, 1.2
Janissary warriors, 12.1, 12.2, 19.1
Jayyusi, Salma Khadra
Jerome, Saint
Jerusalem, 1.1, 11.1, 14.1, 15.1, 19.1
ancient destruction of
Jesus Christ, 1.1, 2.1, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 18.1, 19.1, 23.1
Jews and, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
paintings depicting life of, 18.1, 18.2, 24.1, 24.2
Jews, Judaism
in ancestry of Columbus
biblical, 1.1, 11.1
conversion of, 1.1, 8.1, 10.1, 16.1
crypto-
cultural golden age of, 1.1, 1.2
depicted in paintings
as doctors
expelled from Portugal
expelled from Spain, 1.1, 14.1, 20.1
folklore about
gender bias in children of
at Isabella’s coronation
long history of, in Spain, 1.1, 14.1
Mehmed admired by, 12.1, 14.1
Muslims and, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 14.1, 14.2, 20.1
Ottoman tolerance of
persecution of, 1.1, 3.1, 14.1, 20.1, 20.2
professions practiced by
in Reconquest, 13.1, 13.2
in repopulation of conquered cities
role of, in Muslim conquest, 1.1, 1.2
Roman persecution of
as targets of Inquisition, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 16.1, 24.1
Visigoth persecution of, 1.1, 14.1
see also conversos
Joan of Arc, Saint:
execution of
as model for Isabella, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 23.1
reexamination of, 2.1, 8.1
Joan of Valois
João, constable of Portugal (son of João I)
João I, king of Portugal
João II, king of Portugal, 3.1, 4.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 20.1
João III, king of Portugal
John the Baptist, Saint, 2.1, 11.1, 11.2, 18.1
John the Evangelist, Saint, 2.1, 11.1, 11.2
John of Gaunt
Johnson, Marion
Jorge (Juan II’s illegitimate son)
jousting, 2.1, 18.1, 18.2, 24.1
Joyous Entry of Joanna of Aragon-Castile, The,
Juana (Ferdinand and Aldonza’s illegitimate daughter)
Juana (Ferdinand and Joana’s illegitimate daughter)
Juana, princess (Ferdinand and Isabella’s daughter), 11.1, 22.1, 23.1
birth of, 11.1, 14.1
burial site of
childhood of, 11.1, 13.1
children of, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4
confinement of
as ineffective ruler
as Juana la Loca
in line of succession, 21.1, 21.2, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 24.2
marriage of, 18.1, 18.2, 21.1, 21.2, 23.1
marriage prospects for, 11.1, 18.1, 18.2
as mistreatment and manipulation of, 18.1, 21.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4
naïveté of
in power struggle for throne of Castile
pregnancies of, 18.1, 21.1, 24.1
purported mental illness of, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5
as queen of Castile, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
Juana, queen of Aragon (Juana Enriquez), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 14.1
Juana, queen of Naples, 6.1, 10.1, 16.1, 18.1
Juana la Beltraneja, princess (daughter of Enrique and Juana):
birth of
in claim to throne, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 22.1, 24.1
death of
debated paternity of, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 18.1, 24.1
marriage of Alfonso V and, 10.1, 10.2
marriage prospects for, 7.1, 10.1, 18.1, 24.1, 24.2
Juana of Aragon, Queen (wife of Enrique), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 24.1
Juan I, king of Castile
Juan II, king of Aragon, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1, 11.2, 16.1, 22.1
control Castile desired by, 6.1, 7.1, 11.1
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