Speaker: Angel Smith (University of Leeds and St. The Black Legend in England: The Development of Anti-Spanish Sentiment, 1558-1660 (Duke Historical Publications) Get A Copy Friend Reviews Reader Q&A Lists. England and the Netherlands, Spains imperial rivals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, imagined Spain as cruel and degenerate barbarians of la.It began almost 100 years later, and exactly one year after the. Date: 30 November 2017, 17:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2017)ġ Church Walk OX2 6LY See location on maps.ox The Inquisition Myth, which Spaniards call The Black Legend, did not arise in 1480. The authors assert however that the Black Legend per se was a contrivance of Spains colonial rivals, especially England, to divert attention from the.The seminar focuses on the contribution of such ideas in the construction of nationalist movements against the Spanish state in Cuba, Catalonia and the Basque Country. He would also like to broaden this work out to include the elaboration and dissemination of the Black Legend and Orientalist perspectives on Spain/the Hispanic world in the United States and Latin America, most notably the assimilation of such discourses in Latin America and their impact on the construction of national identity (with reference both to Spain and the United States). It includes the chapter by Smith, “Nationalisms against the Spanish State, 1808-1923: Cuba, Catalonia and the Basque Country.” At present he is working on a single-authored monograph on the “Black Legend” and the “Orientalisation” of Spain by the European intelligentsia and its impact on Spanish nationalism and on the building of Spanish cultural identity. This year, together with Professor Paul Garner, he has also brought out the edited volume, Nationalism and Transnationalism in Spain and Latin America, 1808-1923 (Cardiff: Wales University Press). 8 (Oxford: Berghahn, 2007), and The Origins of Catalan Nationalism, 1770-1898 (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014).
Some parts of it did actually address the conquest of. There's definitely a 'black legend' out there, as a form of anti-Catholic and anti-Protestant propaganda. His major monographs are Anarchism, Revolution and Reaction: Catalan Labour and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898-1923, International Studies in Social History, vol. RM BTKF36Scene of early slavery in the Americas, shows Spanish soldiers slaughtering and capturing resisting Native Americans. So the 'black legend' is talking about actual history rather than talking about it in a sanitized way that makes us feel good. From the book Rereading the Black Legend.
Angel Smith is Reader in Modern Spanish history at the University of Leeds. The Black Legend and Global Conspiracies: Spain, the Inquisition, and the Emerging Modern World.
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