Black Legend (Spain)
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The Black Legend, or the Spanish Black Legend, is an alleged historiographical tendency consisting of anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic propaganda. Its proponents consider it to have its roots in the 16th century, originally as a political and psychological weapon by Spain's northern European rivals in the attempt of demonizing the Spanish Empire, its people and culture, minimizing Spanish discoveries and achievements, and countering its influence and power in world affairs.
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See also
- Society in the Spanish Colonial Americas
- Albigensian Crusade
- Anti-Catholicism
- Aragonese Crusade
- Atrocity propaganda
- Black armband view of history, a similar concept in Australia
- Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition
- Blood libel
- Colonial mentality
- Cultural depictions of Philip II of Spain
- Encomienda
- Hispanophobia
- Historical revisionism
- Historiography of Colonial Spanish America
- History of the west coast of North America
- Information warfare
- Laws of Burgos
- Mozarabic Rite
- New Laws
- Population history of indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Spanish colonization of the Americas
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
- Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire
- Spanish conquest of Yucatán
- Spanish Empire
- Toledo School of Translators
- Valladolid debate
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