Black Legend, term indicating an unfavorable image of Spain and Spaniards, accusing them of cruelty and intolerance, formerly prevalent in the works of many non-Spanish, and especially Protestant, historians. Learn more about the Black Legend in this article.

The Black Legend (Spanish: Leyenda negra) or the Spanish Black Legend (Spanish: Leyenda negra española) is a purported historiographical tendency which consists of anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic propaganda.

2024年2月7日 · The term Black Legend is used to describe the negative portrayal of Spanish and Portuguese colonization and conquest in the New World in European literature and popular culture. The Black Legend depicted Spanish and Portuguese colonizers as cruel, brutal, and greedy, and portrayed their treatment of indigenous peoples as barbaric and inhumane.

2024年3月2日 · Black legends are works of propaganda that aim to portray one group in a negative light. Read on to learn about the most prevalent forms of black legends.

2023年11月21日 · The black legend refers to the negative depiction of Spain and its people in history, often inaccurate and untrue. It became a propaganda tool devised to justify their...

In his pamphlet Gibson defined the Black Legend as “the accumulated tradition of propaganda and Hispanophobia according to which Spanish imperialism is regarded as cruel, bigoted, exploitative, and self-righteous in excess of reality.”

2024年11月25日 · The black legend of the Borgias Milan’s Castello Sforzesco was the residence of the Sforza dukes of Milan. Lucrezia Borgia’s first husband, Giovanni Sforza, was from a parallel line of the...

The phrase “The Black Legend” was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country defined by ignorance, superstition, and religious fanaticism, whose history could never recover from the black mark of its violent conquest of the Americas.

2008年1月30日 · The phrase “The Black Legend” was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country defined by ignorance, superstition, and religious fanaticism, whose history could never recover from the black mark of its violent conquest of the Americas.

The Black Legend is the perception/theory that Spaniards are especially tyrannical, cruel, intolerant, lustful, and greedy people. These powerful stereotypes prevent an accurate understanding of Early-Modern, and even contemporary Spain.