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The Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition is the hypothesis of the existence of a series of myths and fabrications about the Spanish Inquisition used as propaganda against the Spanish Empire in a time of strong military, commercial and political rivalry between European powers, starting in the 16th century.
At an 18 April 1899 Paris conference, Emilia Pardo Bazán used the term "Black Legend" for the first time to refer to a general view of modern Spanish history: Abroad, our miseries are known and often exaggerated without balance; take as an example the book by M. Yves Guyot, which we can consider as the perfect model of a black legend, the opposite of a golden legend.
Said scholars would obtain international recognition and start a period of revision on the Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition. [230] At the start of the 20th century Henry Charles Lea published the groundbreaking History of the Inquisition in Spain. This influential work describes the Spanish Inquisition as "an engine of immense power ...
The Spanish Inquisition, regarding its procedures as secret, never disputed Montanus. In a public relations war of the press the Spanish Inquisition forfeited. [55] For reasons of history England and France were particularly receptive to Montanus. [56] English monarchs alternated between persecuting Catholics and persecuting Protestants.
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The Spanish Inquisition forced de Bry [citation needed], a Protestant, to flee his native, Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands. He moved around Europe, starting from his birth on the city of Liège in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, then to Strasbourg, Antwerp, London and Frankfurt, where he settled.
This article is an argument against the black legend, not an effort to describe the black legend in a neutral and factual manner. Smallchief 13:34, 5 February 2022 (UTC) @Dunutubble, Walrasiad, and Smallchief: The current lead is terrible, but I think maybe this article should be titled "Spanish Inquisition in the Black Legend".
He has also written on the Spanish Inquisition. [2] Green disagrees with the notion of a Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition and often quotes sixteenth-century sources, regarding the institution's abuse of power in Latin America, and is often cited regarding this subject. He has other publications regarding the issues of religious ...