Rereading the Black Legend
Subtitle: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires
Contributors: Margaret R. Greer (Editor); Walter D. Mignolo (Editor); Maureen Quilligan (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: January 30, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780226307213
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Religious conflict; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; Medieval; Renaissance; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 16th century; Black Legend (Spanish history); History; Imperialism; National characteristics, Spanish
Description: The phrase 'the Black Legend' was coined in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as backward ignorant, superstitious and fanatically religious. This book challenges this by contextualizing Spain's tarnished reputation exposing how other nations benefitted from propagating this image.