DEMETRIOU, EROULLA / RUIZ MAS, JOSE
The Anglophone world has spread the belief that the“defeat” of the Spanish Armada was the beginning ofSpanish decadence and England’s/Britain’s firstserious step towards the world power status. However, how much truthis there in this view of English historiography and literature? Whatwas Elizabeth I and Sir Francis Drake’s real role in thisprocess of glorification of the English/British race and deificationof its alleged protagonists? These are the chiaroscuros of historythat this book tries to rethink.
