Juana I Quotes

“She was proud, passionate and spirited. She was also cautious and often frustrated by indecision. She had a sharp wit, a caustic tongue, a vivid grasp of language and was doubtless capable of the malice attributed to her by her adversaries. She had immense courage and formidable tenacity. Like her daughter, Mary of Hungary, she had rollercoaster moods of energy and depression and aroused suspicions with respect to her religious laxity.”
― Gillian B. Fleming, Juana I: Legitimacy and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Castile

“Revolutionary movements look back, as well as forward, to reclaim lost or disappearing rights and privileges, real or imagined, both as a means of expressing what might otherwise be almost impossible to express, and of driving forward fresh agendas for political, economic and social change.”
― Gillian B. Fleming, Juana I: Legitimacy and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Castile