One of the points against Spain was his great concern to keep everything in archives, in fact one of the nicknames of King Philip II was the “paper king”. So, this black legend is born in Protestant countries such as England, Holland and Germany and not in Catholic countries, for very enemies of Spain that were like France, something that is curious. These are the times when Charles V stopped the advance of the Protestant Reformation in Europe and this Protestantism was fought through the Council of Trent. Spain will export its culture, its ideas, its universities and its thinking. And to make matters worse, the Catholics will also be blamed for the great fire in London in 1666. It is very true, that the Spanish Inquisition had a longer duration and negative press, that is why the begging of this black legend. However, the Protestant religious persecution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the rest of Europe, reaches death rates much higher than the Spanish, which received the very bad reputation. As a result of the Catholic religion, Spain has dragged and dragged the stigma of the Inquisition. Thus, Spain became the vanguard of Catholicism. It supposed that with the territorial conquests were united the fervent religious work in the new conquered lands. We can not ignore that politics and religion were intrinsically linked with each other in this era in Spain. The rest of the european countries became jealous and they couldn’t understand how one little country divided into many kingdoms became so powerful in very few years. So, Spain became the first world power and dominated half the world. Surprisingly, in less than 30 years Spain was unified. Long time ago, Spain was a divided country into a series of antagonistic kingdoms that fought for power and for the territories. However, today, there are very good historians that have documented deeply in this period. Nowadays, this black leyend is still in the history of Spain. In many cases, a true historical event was distorted or they did not say the whole truth. The black legend of Spain was a group of invented ideas by the rest of the European nations to discredit the advances and the achievements made by the Spain in the Century of Gold or the XVIth century. What is the black leyend of Spain and how did it affect Spain?
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |