Isabella the Catholic. A model for the Christian world?

Isabella Catholic, Queen of Castile (1474-1504) - a key figure in the history of medieval Spain. Its an extraordinary personality as if connecting two periods in the history of the Pyrenean Peninsula - the Middle Ages and the New Time. At one time, Isabella was revered as a government that ended with the seven-year epic reconquists and capturing the last stronghold of Muslims in the Spanish land - the Granada Emirate. In order for the modern reader to understand the entire scale of Isabella"s activities, it is enough to remind that it was she who stood at the sources of the expedition of Columbus and the opening of Latin America, established the infamous Spanish inquisition and, together with her husband, King Aragon Ferdinand, laid the foundations of Spain"s unification in a single state. All this is milestones in the history of the development of Western European civilization. But how big is the personal contribution of Isabella Catholic in these and other events that occurred in Spain at this time? Could they happen without it, because of one inevitable adoption in history? Should not see all the solutions of the queen"s influence of its harsh and vengeful spouse, Ferdinand Aragon? It is for these questions, and in favor of Isabella, a prominent specialist in the history of Spain is answered by the XV-XVI centuries, the head of the House of the Pyrenees Countries at the University of Bordeaux III, Joseph Perez