Hilaire Kallendorf, Ph.D. (2000, Princeton University) is Professor of Hispanic and Religious Studies at Texas A&M University. She has published four monographs, all with the University of Toronto Press. This is her fourth Companion with Brill.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: Inventing IsabelHilaire Kallendorf2 Isabel, Her Chroniclers, and the Inquisition: Self-Fashioning and Historical MemoryDavid A. Boruchoff3 The Learning of Ladies at the Isabelline CourtElizabeth Teresa Howe4 Isabel I of Castile and Saintly Propaganda: Interpreting the St. Anne Retable in the Capilla del CondestableCristina Guardiola-Griffiths5 Art Patronized and Collected by Queen IsabelJessica Weiss6 Ludic Dimensions of Courtly Love at the Court of Isabel la CatólicaRoger Boase7 Isabel of Castile and the Opening of the AtlanticWilliam D. Phillips, Jr.8 Hostile Histories: Isabel and Fernando in Jewish and Muslim NarrativesMichelle M. Hamilton9 Windows into Souls: Isabel, Religion, and the Spanish InquisitionJohn Edwards10 Isabel’s Years of Sorrow: Consoling the Catholic QueenNuria Silleras-Fernandez 11 Staging the Queen: Lope de Vega Reads Isabel la CatólicaEdward H. Friedman12 The Legend of Isabel la Católica, Founder of SpainCaroline Travalia13 Isabel la Católica for the 21st Century: Popular and Political RecreationsEmily C. FrancomanoBibliographyIndex