New Releases by David Lopez

Throughout the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth centuries, Spain served as a cultural, religious and commercial rival to England. Over the course of those three centuries, a body of anti-Spanish thinking, the Leyenda Negra, or Black Legend, was brought into being in English print culture. The image of the Spaniard as proud, cruel, tyrannical, benighted, and savage was firmly ensconced in the English cultural imagination, and Spain became a predictive imagined geography figuring brutality, repression, and false belief.