We don't really have firm numbers on casualties from the Spanish side (probably because just how fractured and inured to conflict Spain was at the time), but Castillian armies were among the largest seen before in Europe during the final years of the Iberian reconquest. Over 100,000 Muslims were killed or captured in the closing years.
We don't really have firm numbers on casualties from the Spanish side (probably because just how fractured and inured to conflict Spain was at the time), but Castillian armies were among the largest seen before in Europe during the final years of the Iberian reconquest. Over 100,000 Muslims were killed or captured in the closing years.
Really, though, I was just referencing this:
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23337/w23337.pdf
Married queens were around 27% more bellicose than their male counterparts.
Boo hoo.
The Catholic Monarchs were heroes for kicking Islam out of Iberia. But it was Ferdinand, not Isabella, who led the armies.
I am not sure the sample size is in any way impressive, but OK.
I'm not knocking her. She kicked out Jews, too. That whole inquisition thing was a bit fucked, though.
But yes, the sample size is small. We're talking about an anomaly. What data we have suggests it should remain an anomaly.