Interesting videos (especially the
Monte Python scenes) . . .
Myth
of the Spanish Inquisition
The
Black Legend
The Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition is
a term used by authors who consider the existence of a romanticized or
exaggerated image of the Spanish Inquisition as the epitome of
terror and human barbarity. As such, it is a part of the Spanish
Black Legend and one of its most recurrent themes.
Peters defines it as:
a body of myths and legends that between the sixteenth
and twentieth centuries, established the perceived character of inquisitorial
tribunals that have influenced all subsequent attempts to recover the
historical reality
A
Catholic View of the Black Legend
[The Black
Legend: How Lies, Jealousy, and Hatred of Spain Have Influenced World Opinion
for More Than Five Hundred Years]
In order to
begin to understand this complex topic, we must first settle on a working
definition of the meaning of the term “Black Legend.” Let us then start with
the man who coined the phrase, the Spaniard Julian Juderias, in his book, La
Leyenda Negra (The Black Legend), of 1914: “(It is) The environment
created by the fantastic stories about our homeland that have seen the light of
publicity in all countries, the grotesque descriptions that have been made of
the character of Spaniards as individuals and collectively, the denial or at
least the systematic ignorance of all that is favorable and beautiful in the
various manifestations of culture and art, the accusations that in every era
have been flung at Spain.”
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