University of London, Birkbeck College
Graduate Student, Spanish & Latin American Studies
Thesis Title: A War of Images: Iconography of the Spanish Black Legend
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Dr Carmen Fracchia
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Early-Modern Spain occupied centre-stage in European politics, but over the centuries its cultural and political dominance waned, perhaps as a consequence of the subsequent dominance of Protestant Northern European culture. Certainly to the English Spain’s relevance historically is as the “other”, or the “natural enemy” , as Oliver Cromwell described the Spanish in 1656 at the opening of the English Parliament. In 1914, the Spanish political writer Julian Juderías y Loyot described this apparent cultural hostility towards Spain and general lack of interest as symptoms of the effect of what he called the “Spanish Black Legend”, the negative exomorphism generated by Spain’s rivals over the centuries. By looking at this “Black Legend” as a propaganda war I hope to find evidence for the existence of an aggressive artistic dialogue between Spain and its rivals – a “war of images”.
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