It blows my mind how few people watch these wonderfully presented histories. Maybe it creates confusion with and among her primary audience. That is music vs. serious history. I don't know. I know this, however, Eva is really a historian, too. Her straight forward unadorned presentation is wonderful. She does not weigh her story down with pedantic minutiae. She sorts through side stories and stays on track. These histories deserve a wide TH-cam audience. Keep them coming. Please.
Thank you for this wonderful comment. It's always a very deliberate set of choices in making one of these episodes to focus on a narrative thread and leave out details that distract from it, as well as humanising the stories.
@@evaschubert1 The HISPANIC CREED is Time-defying in making indistinguishable the Past, the Present, and the Future. ... It has a low-key presence in the U.S., an enduring presence in South America and Equatorial Guinea, and, from I can only suspect, a tantalizing presence in the Philippines, with smaller other pockets in the Pacific. ... This HISPANIC CREED is beautifully and poetically evoked in Gabriel Garcia Marques masterpiece, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'. ... The Spanish Impact on other lands was, is, and always will be 'passionate' - in particular with the everpresent timeless debate between the 'Leyenda Negra' vs. the 'Leyenda Dorada' regarding Spain's always everpresent huge Influence. ... (Also, perhaps this creed has been well facilitated by the nature of a beautiful Romance language with few stark dialects - a language that allows so much fluid conversations between an Argentinian and a Honduran, a Venezuelan and a Chilean, etc.)
@@evaschubert1Omg i just found out you’re also a singer! i dont know which of the two careers comes first but you kick ass in both; on one hand we’ve got the historian who can give any of the ”greatest” historians a run for their money, in the other hand we’ve got a very talented lovely singer with a wonderful enticing voice as if i needed more reasons to love your channel; which by the way its extremely underrated; so much talent; so much knowledge; so much beauty cant possibly be hidden for the world to see and hear.❤❤👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Again you are amazing at telling stories. You remind me of my teacher. She used to tell us short Royal stories of king and princesses. And I used to look at her telling us the stories. The difference is that she was telling us invented stories, but you are telling us real history. Thank you.
I'm really happy that you are covering this time period - it gets so little press. Despite what this royal couple managed to accomplish - only a few outside of the Iberian Peninsula know of their exploits.
I completely agree. They were a monumental couple, and while there were tragic aspects to some of the things they did, they are fascinating people nevertheless.
I'm loving this series about Isabel and Fernando, Los Reyes Católicos! Thanks for telling it in such an enjoyable way. There's an incorrection (I'd say it's a typo if it were in writing) at 28:37. I think you said that in 1575 the troups of king Alfonso of Portugal arrived in Castille and he married Juana. It happened, of course, in 1475.
Thank you for your attentive comment. I appreciate it. Occasionally I make slips of the tongue, so if I said 1575 it was of course 1475, consistent with the rest of the dates of Isabella's reign.
Thank you for making this video, I absolutely love it. I’m reading a book on Isabella of Spain and between listening to you and reading the book I find everything coming to light. I visited the castle in Segovia years ago when I was studying in Spain I would love to visit it again, knowing all that I have learned. My grandparents were from Spain and so this entire story brings me back to a time where my ancestors must have lived through. Keep making these videos they are great.
Thank you! This is wonderful. I just went to Spain for the first time in October, and Andalusia in particular. It's so nice to hear about this after visiting some of these cities and places. Your explanation makes it all come to life.
I got a basic knowledge of Ferdinand and Isabella from their appearances in my school studies of the Tudors, so these lectures are welcome and interesting. I am enjoying your presentations. I am also enjoying the lectures on the Protestant Reformation. Many thanks.
According to "mother tongue" website, there are approximately 10,000 words in English which stem from Arabic. However, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) narrowed it down to about 900 words 😅 by omitting speculative derivations and proper nouns. According to the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, between 2000 - 3000 spanish words derive from Arabic (they are not Arabic words), that is when you exclude the speculative derivations and proper names! 😅😅 Therefore 8% would be incorrect.
I have not seen the series you mention, and it would be very dubious for me to base a history podcast on a TV series. These episodes are the result of months of reading history books.
These are so well done! More interesting to me as I follow my four-times cousin Isabella, her father my 4th-cousin, her mother my 5th-cousin, marries my double cousin Ferdinand, his father and his mother my 7th-cousins. Their children my multiple-cousins each marry my cousins. Genealogy can be a lot of fun if one does the work and has the luck to find their way this far back.
Enjoying this series very much and can’t wait for more! Definitely going to check out other series of yours during the wait! You should consider doing a St. Margaret of Scotland series along with the Norman invasion. Or generally a series about the different invasions within the UK and the people behind them. Thanks!!
Very nice history. That is true even the nobles in castilla that were very related to the French (due to centuries of crusades in Spain and the 100 years war Castilla was with France). They don't want to go in the war agaist France with Aragon and the Queen Ysabel requested the sacred oath to them to follow her in the war.. the French were very surprissed to see their Castillanos cousings with the Aragonese.
Hello and just discovered you and am thoroughly enjoying your podcasts. Thank You. And your music is fantastic too. I’m sharing and will continue to. Thanks again very much.
I find Ferdinand throwing a tantrum about his wife holding more power than him and her placating him by saying “it’s okay your name can come before my name in official things” to be hilarious.
King Enrique died on the 11 and Ferdinand Second finds out on the 16 . I get the Kingdoms are not crazy far apart but this blows my mind he found out 5 days later . I guess since it’s the past , I was thinking it would take longer
Respectfully, I would like to make a small correction of the saying that I grew up hearing as inspiration, "Tanto monta, monta tanto, Isabel como Fernando." It isn't Latin, it's Castilian (what Americans call "Spanish"). It's a play on words, because to "montar" means both to ride, for example ride a horse, and also means to matter, in this case to matter as their word being law. Queen Isabel was a great horsewoman and rode to the battlefront with her husband even while pregnant, though he fought and she did not. And, of course, ruled her country in her own right. Through trying to find a good translation of the term, I learned that the English word for "tanto monta" is "tantamount."
SO GOOD! I took like 40 pages of notes. Would love a little more map time & it would be awesome to have spellings of names and things. Took so much time trying to spell things out. Found everything except for the currency. How do you spell it??
You said that Isabel was the first woman to be crowned queen in her own right of Castile. I have heard that there were two before here, Urraca (reigned 1109-26) and Berenguela (reigned briefly in 1217). Is there some difference between Isabel’s legitimacy and these two earlier women? Not a criticism of your work, just curious. Additionally, regarding the use of the word and concept of Spain: although modern Spain as we know it resulted from the union of Ferdinand and Isabel and the conquest of Granada, Spain was used by earlier monarchs, (including Urraca) who had the title “Emperor/Empress of all Spain.” It seems this imperial designation referred to the monarchs ruling over the combined kingdoms of Castile, Leon, Galicia and others. I am assuming that their use of the word Spain was to refer to the Roman province of Hispania and therefore imply that their authority extended over the whole peninsula (real or symbolic.)
Yes, it is true that Urraca and Berenguela were queens, but the readings I did suggested they were queens because of marrriage or regency to a man. Isabella had neither of these common connections and was being crowned "in her own right". It is also true that the word "Spain" was used earlier, but did not designate all the territory now included in the country of Spain. I felt it would be misleading to use that word without commentary.
Very clear and informative podcast. Disappointing to see so many less views while random videos on tik tok are getting views in millions. But I guess its a niche audience you are addressing to. more power to you
These videos would do very well if you marketed them to teenagers this is the type of thing that gets people interested in to history, who were not interested before hand
Many Jews sincerely converted to Christianity . It was some of those Jews who tipped off some teachings of the Talmud which taught Jesus is in Hell in his own excrement and Mother Mary was a whore among other lies. Also you did not bring up usury. I like your style of storytelling. Also - it is good to know Isabella was objective enough to keep the Governor of Segovia. Many Jews which included many former Rabbis became exemplary Catholics and they helped glean the posers as well. It is important to note that the most converts truly believed in Christ by the extensive evangelism that took place. So- resentment did not necessarily come out of a vacuum. There were subversive activities going on. And there were those faking it that started to cause problems and cause suspicion. I hope you research Catholic archives and other historians that make a case for this issue and to expand your perspective on certain points. One must consider 700 years of trying to take back their country - a long fought battle. I recently discovered St. Theresa of Avila’s paternal grandfather was a converso. I just finished reading her autobiography- a great mystic and Doctor of the Church. Jesus appeared to her many times. She reformed the Carmelite order and opened many. 2 centuries later, her spiritual Carmelite descendants in France - were guillotined . They sang Latin hymns on their way to having their heads chopped off. The mob was silent has they went to the scaffold. 10 days later the Reign of Terror ended. St. Theresa of Avila pray for us. End the freemasonic education in our schools and universities . Freemasonry was behind the French, American, and Russian Revolutions.
Thanks so much.I am learning so much about what her life was like back then.Queen Isbella De Çastilla is my 16th.greatgrandmom.Thank you, Maureen Ramage
do you have DNA and genealogy proof for this claim?? because if you do thats freaking awesome! imagine being a direct descendant from the one greatest monarchs the world has ever seen dare to say of all time
@@joelas87 Yes I do.My husband got me a DNA test for Christmas and when Spanish and Italian showed up.I wanted to no were so I went to an ancestry site and that's how I found out.Its on my Mother's side of the family.Thank you, Maureen
I would add that it is Isabel in Spanish, Isabella in Italian and Elizabeth in English. I don't understand the English obsession with naming her in Italian.
A isabel la querian casar con un viejo, su tio Alfonso rey de Portugal y hermano de su madre. Ella prefirió a su primo en 2⁰ grado Fernando de Aragón. 😂❤
Spanish doesn't exist now either. It's still Castilian. In Spain there are other languages. The name "Spanish" refered to the language was created in the XIX century as part of the nationalism that was normal at that time.
Spanish do exist, spanish and castilian are sinonims. The 4th meaning of "español" in the Real Academia Española dictionary says: "4. m. Lengua romance que se habla en España, gran parte de América, Filipinas, Guinea Ecuatorial y otros lugares del mundo. Sin.: castellano, kastila, romance."
It blows my mind how few people watch these wonderfully presented histories. Maybe it creates confusion with and among her primary audience. That is music vs. serious history. I don't know. I know this, however, Eva is really a historian, too. Her straight forward unadorned presentation is wonderful. She does not weigh her story down with pedantic minutiae. She sorts through side stories and stays on track. These histories deserve a wide TH-cam audience. Keep them coming. Please.
Thank you for this wonderful comment. It's always a very deliberate set of choices in making one of these episodes to focus on a narrative thread and leave out details that distract from it, as well as humanising the stories.
@@evaschubert1 The HISPANIC CREED is Time-defying in making indistinguishable the Past, the Present, and the Future. ... It has a low-key presence in the U.S., an enduring presence in South America and Equatorial Guinea, and, from I can only suspect, a tantalizing presence in the Philippines, with smaller other pockets in the Pacific. ... This HISPANIC CREED is beautifully and poetically evoked in Gabriel Garcia Marques masterpiece, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'. ... The Spanish Impact on other lands was, is, and always will be 'passionate' - in particular with the everpresent timeless debate between the 'Leyenda Negra' vs. the 'Leyenda Dorada' regarding Spain's always everpresent huge Influence. ... (Also, perhaps this creed has been well facilitated by the nature of a beautiful Romance language with few stark dialects - a language that allows so much fluid conversations between an Argentinian and a Honduran, a Venezuelan and a Chilean, etc.)
@@evaschubert1Omg i just found out you’re also a singer! i dont know which of the two careers comes first but you kick ass in both; on one hand we’ve got the historian who can give any of the ”greatest” historians a run for their money, in the other hand we’ve got a very talented lovely singer with a wonderful enticing voice as if i needed more reasons to love your channel; which by the way its extremely underrated; so much talent; so much knowledge; so much beauty cant possibly be hidden for the world to see and hear.❤❤👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
@vmhutch wholeheartedly agree with you sir; this channel is extremely underrated; she truly is a great historian so glad i found her channel.
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Again you are amazing at telling stories. You remind me of my teacher. She used to tell us short Royal stories of king and princesses. And I used to look at her telling us the stories. The difference is that she was telling us invented stories, but you are telling us real history. Thank you.
I'm really happy that you are covering this time period - it gets so little press. Despite what this royal couple managed to accomplish - only a few outside of the Iberian Peninsula know of their exploits.
I completely agree. They were a monumental couple, and while there were tragic aspects to some of the things they did, they are fascinating people nevertheless.
I'm loving this series about Isabel and Fernando, Los Reyes Católicos! Thanks for telling it in such an enjoyable way.
There's an incorrection (I'd say it's a typo if it were in writing) at 28:37. I think you said that in 1575 the troups of king Alfonso of Portugal arrived in Castille and he married Juana. It happened, of course, in 1475.
Thank you for your attentive comment. I appreciate it. Occasionally I make slips of the tongue, so if I said 1575 it was of course 1475, consistent with the rest of the dates of Isabella's reign.
Clear, precise and to the point. You make these past figures look alive and one can imagine all this in mind while listening to your voice.
I am so pleased to have found this series. Compelling storytelling!
Isabella was among all that she was, a capable leader.
Queen Isabella, please pray for Great Catholic Monarch.
Amen. Queen Isabella, pray for a Great Catholic Monarch!
Thank you for making this video, I absolutely love it. I’m reading a book on Isabella of Spain and between listening to you and reading the book I find everything coming to light. I visited the castle in Segovia years ago when I was studying in Spain I would love to visit it again, knowing all that I have learned. My grandparents were from Spain and so this entire story brings me back to a time where my ancestors must have lived through. Keep making these videos they are great.
I am delighted to hear you found it useful. Thank you for letting me know.
It’s very educational and enjoyable to learn history in a fun way that is not boring.
love the way you share history, makes the characters seem like they are still living (:
That is always the goal.
Another great episode. Thank you
Thank you! This is wonderful. I just went to Spain for the first time in October, and Andalusia in particular. It's so nice to hear about this after visiting some of these cities and places. Your explanation makes it all come to life.
Thank you for your comment Linda! I am so glad it enriches your experience. 😊
I got a basic knowledge of Ferdinand and Isabella from their appearances in my school studies of the Tudors, so these lectures are welcome and interesting. I am enjoying your presentations. I am also enjoying the lectures on the Protestant Reformation. Many thanks.
According to "mother tongue" website, there are approximately 10,000 words in English which stem from Arabic. However, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) narrowed it down to about 900 words 😅 by omitting speculative derivations and proper nouns. According to the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, between 2000 - 3000 spanish words derive from Arabic (they are not Arabic words), that is when you exclude the speculative derivations and proper names! 😅😅 Therefore 8% would be incorrect.
I think she has seen "Isabel" TV Series (2011-2014) because she it matches it perfectly. 😊
I have not seen the series you mention, and it would be very dubious for me to base a history podcast on a TV series. These episodes are the result of months of reading history books.
This actually helps me more than my college class in Spain 1500-1750’s
Thank you for letting me know. That makes my day.
Thank you for your work! This is so good.
Thank you so much Eva!💝 I look forward to the next episode!
Thank you Tamara. So glad you enjoyed it 😁
These are so well done! More interesting to me as I follow my four-times cousin Isabella, her father my 4th-cousin, her mother my 5th-cousin, marries my double cousin Ferdinand, his father and his mother my 7th-cousins. Their children my multiple-cousins each marry my cousins. Genealogy can be a lot of fun if one does the work and has the luck to find their way this far back.
Fabulous content. I love history, and your presentation really helps to bring it to life. Many thanks.
Excellent content. Well done. The pronunciation of Spanish words is not great, but the information is correct and well presented.
It's great history Can't wait to share with the younger generation..
I am glad you are enjoying it 😊
Enjoying this series very much and can’t wait for more! Definitely going to check out other series of yours during the wait!
You should consider doing a St. Margaret of Scotland series along with the Norman invasion. Or generally a series about the different invasions within the UK and the people behind them.
Thanks!!
That is an excellent suggestion. Thank you.
Great presentation. I hereby recommend this channel. Great in details, see the whole episode in on seating, which is rare for me.
Your work is so good! I'm enthralled by the way you deliver history.
Thank you for letting me know! I appreciate it.
Great and lovely storyteller!!
Enjoying this series so much, thanks Eva Shubert! With all this material you could make shorts with short facts... Very good!
My pleasure. Glad you are enjoying it 😊
Very nice history. That is true even the nobles in castilla that were very related to the French (due to centuries of crusades in Spain and the 100 years war Castilla was with France). They don't want to go in the war agaist France with Aragon and the Queen Ysabel requested the sacred oath to them to follow her in the war.. the French were very surprissed to see their Castillanos cousings with the Aragonese.
Excellent information of history.
Absolutely Fabulous!
This is a great series
Thank you!
Hello and just discovered you and am thoroughly enjoying your podcasts. Thank You.
And your music is fantastic too.
I’m sharing and will continue to.
Thanks again very much.
@@RHH1962 thank you so much! I really appreciate your support 😊
I have found you just this morning. I am very impressed and learning lots of history. Binge listening. So happy to have found you.
Thank you for letting me know Deborah. Messages like this always make me smile. 😊
I find Ferdinand throwing a tantrum about his wife holding more power than him and her placating him by saying “it’s okay your name can come before my name in official things” to be hilarious.
Me too! 😉
Where Castile Soap comes from.
Still a great luxury and worth every penny.
14:30 c'mon . angry? Isabella pulled a brilliant move getting coronated QUICKLY. Smart woman!
There can be no doubt of her intelligence. 🙂
Well done ✌️
better than Game of Thrones, and real
King Enrique died on the 11 and Ferdinand Second finds out on the 16 . I get the Kingdoms are not crazy far apart but this blows my mind he found out 5 days later . I guess since it’s the past , I was thinking it would take longer
Very good.
Respectfully, I would like to make a small correction of the saying that I grew up hearing as inspiration, "Tanto monta, monta tanto, Isabel como Fernando." It isn't Latin, it's Castilian (what Americans call "Spanish"). It's a play on words, because to "montar" means both to ride, for example ride a horse, and also means to matter, in this case to matter as their word being law. Queen Isabel was a great horsewoman and rode to the battlefront with her husband even while pregnant, though he fought and she did not. And, of course, ruled her country in her own right. Through trying to find a good translation of the term, I learned that the English word for "tanto monta" is "tantamount."
It is an amazing motto and declaration. The link to “tantamount” is delightful!
@@evaschubert1 🙂
I need to check out some of your music, You have a beautiful smile..
SO GOOD! I took like 40 pages of notes. Would love a little more map time & it would be awesome to have spellings of names and things. Took so much time trying to spell things out. Found everything except for the currency. How do you spell it??
You said that Isabel was the first woman to be crowned queen in her own right of Castile. I have heard that there were two before here, Urraca (reigned 1109-26) and Berenguela (reigned briefly in 1217). Is there some difference between Isabel’s legitimacy and these two earlier women? Not a criticism of your work, just curious.
Additionally, regarding the use of the word and concept of Spain: although modern Spain as we know it resulted from the union of Ferdinand and Isabel and the conquest of Granada, Spain was used by earlier monarchs, (including Urraca) who had the title “Emperor/Empress of all Spain.” It seems this imperial designation referred to the monarchs ruling over the combined kingdoms of Castile, Leon, Galicia and others. I am assuming that their use of the word Spain was to refer to the Roman province of Hispania and therefore imply that their authority extended over the whole peninsula (real or symbolic.)
Yes, it is true that Urraca and Berenguela were queens, but the readings I did suggested they were queens because of marrriage or regency to a man. Isabella had neither of these common connections and was being crowned "in her own right". It is also true that the word "Spain" was used earlier, but did not designate all the territory now included in the country of Spain. I felt it would be misleading to use that word without commentary.
Blessed Virgin Mary was crowned Queen of Heaven maybe 20-30 years after Resurrection of Her Son Jesus.
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Very clear and informative podcast. Disappointing to see so many less views while random videos on tik tok are getting views in millions. But I guess its a niche audience you are addressing to. more power to you
These videos would do very well if you marketed them to teenagers this is the type of thing that gets people interested in to history, who were not interested before hand
Thank you. That is high praise 😊
Many Jews sincerely converted to Christianity . It was some of those Jews who tipped off some teachings of the Talmud which taught Jesus is in Hell in his own excrement and Mother Mary was a whore among other lies. Also you did not bring up usury. I like your style of storytelling. Also - it is good to know Isabella was objective enough to keep the Governor of Segovia. Many Jews which included many former Rabbis became exemplary Catholics and they helped glean the posers as well. It is important to note that the most converts truly believed in Christ by the extensive evangelism that took place. So- resentment did not necessarily come out of a vacuum. There were subversive activities going on. And there were those faking it that started to cause problems and cause suspicion. I hope you research Catholic archives and other historians that make a case for this issue and to expand your perspective on certain points. One must consider 700 years of trying to take back their country - a long fought battle. I recently discovered St. Theresa of Avila’s paternal grandfather was a converso. I just finished reading her autobiography- a great mystic and Doctor of the Church. Jesus appeared to her many times. She reformed the Carmelite order and opened many. 2 centuries later, her spiritual Carmelite descendants in France - were guillotined . They sang Latin hymns on their way to having their heads chopped off. The mob was silent has they went to the scaffold. 10 days later the Reign of Terror ended. St. Theresa of Avila pray for us. End the freemasonic education in our schools and universities . Freemasonry was behind the French, American, and Russian Revolutions.
Thanks so much.I am learning so much about what her life was like back then.Queen Isbella De Çastilla is my 16th.greatgrandmom.Thank you, Maureen Ramage
do you have DNA and genealogy proof for this claim?? because if you do thats freaking awesome! imagine being a direct descendant from the one greatest monarchs the world has ever seen dare to say of all time
@@joelas87 Yes I do.My husband got me a DNA test for Christmas and when Spanish and Italian showed up.I wanted to no were so I went to an ancestry site and that's how I found out.Its on my Mother's side of the family.Thank you, Maureen
WOW!!! awesome
Ferdinand and Isabella’s daughter’s name is not Catherine an American history keeps repeating. My cousin in Spain corrected me Catalina.
I would add that it is Isabel in Spanish, Isabella in Italian and Elizabeth in English.
I don't understand the English obsession with naming her in Italian.
Just a small detail, the Mozarabic language is not Arabic, it is Arabized Western-Romance, a now extinct Romance language
Yes. I also called Castilian simply “Spanish” here for ease of understanding.
A isabel la querian casar con un viejo, su tio Alfonso rey de Portugal y hermano de su madre. Ella prefirió a su primo en 2⁰ grado Fernando de Aragón. 😂❤
Spanish doesn't exist now either. It's still Castilian. In Spain there are other languages. The name "Spanish" refered to the language was created in the XIX century as part of the nationalism that was normal at that time.
Spanish do exist, spanish and castilian are sinonims. The 4th meaning of "español" in the Real Academia Española dictionary says:
"4. m. Lengua romance que se habla en España, gran parte de América, Filipinas, Guinea Ecuatorial y otros lugares del mundo. Sin.: castellano, kastila, romance."
December 13th is my birthday!
Your arms is part of Your storytelling
and we are loving it si señor!
No Ferdinand and Isabella, the corrects names are Isabel and Fernando.
The Catholic Church has never allowed infidelity in a matrimony.
There are many things that are not allowed in religion which people do anyway. 🤷♀️
@@evaschubert1 true but it’s not because of Catholic patriarchy. It was in spit of Catholic teaching. Just wanted to clarify it.
No Isabela. Es Isabel