Europe's first great queen

No man ever held such power

The impotent

The Queen's daughter

Two kings, two brothers

Bulls

Choosing Ferdinand

Marrying Ferdinand

Rebel princess

The Borgias

Queen

and King!

Clouds of war

Under attack

Though I am just a woman

The turning point

Degrading the Grandees

Rough justice

Adiós Beltraneja

The Inquisition : populism and purity

Crusade

They smote us town by town

God save King Boabdil!

The Tudors

Granada falls

Handover

Expulsion of the Jews

The vale of tears

The race to Asia

Partying women

A hellish night

new world

Indians, parrots, and hammocks

Dividing up the world

A new continent

Borgia weddings

All the thrones of Europe

Though we are clerics ... we are still flesh and blood

Juana's fleet

Twice married, but a virgin when she died

The third knife-thrust of pain

The dirty Tiber

We Germans call them rats

The end of Islam?

The Sultan of Egypt

Like a wild lioness

The final judgement

A beam of glory

Appendix. Monetary values and coinage.