Isabel la Católica

Here is one of the most powerful women of all time: Isabella the Catholic, the woman who laid the foundations of a vast empire and who created the first modern state in Europe. Two key episodes of her reign, the creation of the Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews, cast a shadow over her biography. Thus, while some historians have said that she was ambitious, intolerant, frivolous and cruel, at the other extreme others have drawn her as a referent of an austere and devoted woman. Both are biased interpretations, channeled by a classical historiography with a strong ideological and patriarchal charge. You have in your hands the definitive life of Queen Elizabeth, a rigorous and current biography that is stripped of prejudices to do justice to the figure of a great queen, a great woman. The portrait of a modern stateswoman.