Inquisition, Protestants and Philip the II. Adolfo de Castro and National History as Black Legend

Abstract

In parallel with his faking of El Buscapié, Adolfo de Castro had considerable importance in the beginnings of Liberal Historiography. Castro developed his vision of Spain in a pamphleteering way, without rigor and, following the ideas developed by some foreign writers, marked by the Black Legend. This vision of Spanish History as rejected by the different tendencies of Spanish Liberalism, thus relegating Castro to a marginal position in the historiographical field.