Black Legend

black legend English black legend Alternative forms en black legend Etymology en es Leyenda Negra Black Legend. Proper noun Black Legend 1 en historiography The depiction of Spain and Spaniards (or, by extension, all Hispanics and their countries of origin) as bloodthirsty and cruel, greedy and fanatical, especially concerning the colonial period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. en w:Jan Morris Spain Faber and Faber 978-0-571-24787-5 1964 2008 Wild Spain if the black legend seemed to be fading at last, the horrors of the Civil War revived it with a vengeance. Never was a conflict fought more bitterly. en Edwin Williamson The Penguin history of Latin America 1992 Penguin Books London; New York 978-0-14-012559-7 84 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780140125597/page/84/mode/1up Here the problem is aggravated by the mutually reinforcing influences of the ‘black legend’ of Spanish greed and cruelty, and the contrasting myth of the American Indian as ‘noble savage’. Translations the depiction of Spain as cruel, greedy and fanatical Dutch: nl Zwarte Legende f Finnish: fi musta legenda French: fr Légende Noire f Polish: pl Czarna Legenda hiszpanii f Portuguese: pt Lenda Negra f Spanish: es Leyenda Negra f Swedish: sv svarta legenden See also en White Legend