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There are a couple of YouTube videos on the Inquisition that I have used in civilization courses that might be relevant.  Both are BBC documentaries; maybe the same one just edited differently. One provides a pretty traditional view and focuses on the horrors of the Inquisition. I believe this  is it:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwWXEV7MHgc . The second covers much of the same material but more pointedly puts it in the context of the Leyenda Negra and Spain's battle with Protestantism:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY-pS6iLFuc .  If the links do not work just do a search in YouTube for "The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition."  

Michael


Michael Schinasi
Associate Professor
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858





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Hi, Harley,

In English and about the Black Legend, you might take a look at:  William S. Maltby. The Black Legend in England: The Development of Anti-Spanish Sentiment, 1558-1660. Duke UP: Durham, 1971.

Malty offers some engaging reading, including, for example the following quote from "The Coppie of the Anti-Spaniard made at Paris by a French man, a Catholique, Wherein is directly professed how the Spanish King is the onely cause of all the troubles in France. Translated out of the French into English." London: John Wolfe, 1590.: "… [their]insatiate avarice, their more than Tigerish cruelty, their filthy monstrous and abominable luxury, their wasteful burning of thy houses, their detestable ransacking and pillage of those great treasures which from all parts of Europe were laid up in store in thy sumptuous palaces, their lustful and inhuman deflowreing of thy matrons, wives, and daughters, their matchless and sodomitical ravishing of young boys, which the demi-barbarian Spaniards committed in the presence of aged burgesses that were fathers, bretheren, or husbands of those tormented patients, who to grieve them the more while they committed all these escreable villainies and outrageous cruelties, did tie and chain them at their bed's feet, or in other places, and last of all the general and continual cruel tormenting and massacreing of poor and wretched citizens" (Maltby, p. 85).

Sounds vaguely like something I've heard recently.  Though his focus in on England, Maltby mentions the growth of the BL in other European countries, and, if I recall, in the Americas.

Best wishes,
Bob J.

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Dear AHCT Colleagues,
I am teaching a course on the comedia for undergraduate theater majors
this fall, and am looking for a reading that deals either with the
"leyenda negra" and/or reflects on the place of Spanish/Hispanic/Latino
cultural production in the Anglophone world.  Would need to be in
English; need not be specifically about the comedia or Siglo do Oro.
Ideally, something stimulating for the start of the semester, for these
students who have no exposure at all to our field. Any suggestions?
Am also open to any other ideas for readings that are good
semester-starting places for students with this background.
Thanks,
Harley Erdman

am lookin--
Harley Erdman
Professor of Theater
University of Massachusetts at Amherst


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