Plunket starts with the misgovernment and civil war of Henry IV’s reign, then follows Isabel through her accession, the Portuguese war, her reforms of the realm with Ferdinand of Aragon, the Moorish war and the fall of Granada, the Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, Columbus, her children and the Italian wars up to her death in 1504.
A balanced biography that admires its subject without hiding the harsher sides of her reign. Download the free EPUB.