Legitimacy and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Castile
by
Gillian B. Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
This book examines the deep and lengthy crisis of legitimacy triggered by the death of Prince Juan of Castile and Aragon in 1497 and the subsequent ascent of Juana I to the throne in 1504. Confined by historiography and myth to the madwoman’s attic, Juana emerges here as a key figure at the heart...