The Economist (US), October 18th, 1997
PHILIP OF SPAIN. By Henry Kamen. Yale University Press; 448 pages; $35 and K25
JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, an American historian, virulently presented the Protestant Anglo-American version of Philip II of Spain in his classic "Rise of the Dutch Republic", published in 1856: "a mediocrity, a pedant . . . his mind incredibly small . . . a bigot, grossly licentious, cruel . . . a consummate tyrant". Motley did not originate such knockabout stuff. This image of Philip II had been confected in his lifetime by Dutch and English propagandists. Their caricature has enjoyed an extraordinarily long life; it...
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