The Fall of the Spanish Armada: Historiography, Identity and Reception

This short study is based on the monograph titled A spanyol armada pusztulása (1588) Historiográfia, identitás, recepció [The Fall of the Spanish Armada. Historiography, Identity and Reception], Budapest, 2017. The book was written by the author in Hungarian language. This article offers a short analysis of the major lines in English historiography, political speeches, works of art, journals and secondary school education in order to show how the topic of the fall of the Spanish Armada evolved and became part of the English reception.